Roberto,

I have not yet tried a dual PII.  I just finished building a dual 466 and
another 500 MHz Celeron (370 pin) systems.  Equal speed is a big issue.  I
tired with one slower than the other and had no luck, should have same speed
chips to really make it work.  I don't think they need to be made
"specially" BUT, INTEL has start marking their retail CPU boxes with the
words "UNIPROCESSOR SYSTEM ONLY".  This MAY impact on a warranty if you try
to run otherwise.  I have been told they work, but have not experienced this
myself.

On my MBs, ABIT BP-6, there is no requirement to terminate, and the other
dual PII systems I have worked on did not have a terminator, I pretty sure
multiple processor recognition is a function of BIOS.

HTH.
Regards,
Blair

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Subject:        [PCBUILD] About dual PII mobos

When dealing with dual PII motherboards:
1- Any restriction other than the speed, to select the cpus? I mean if they
have to be identical, or made specially to work together.
2- If I decide to use just one cpu, must the other slot be full with a cpu
simulator(or terminator or whatever it is named)¿?

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