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On 10 Oct 99, at 6:48, Bill J McMilleon wrote:
> My plan is to build a dual processor system using Celeron 433 Mhz
> with the Abit BP-6 mb. About a month ago I read an article where it
> said that the rumor was that Intel was going to make the Celeron so
> that it could not be used in a dual processor system. Because of
> the rumor I ordered my Celerons a couple of weeks ago. Upon
> receiving my processors I noticed a line on the box which read,
> "FOR UNIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS". Is this just Intel hype or have they
> already started producing Celerons that are disabled for dual
> processing? Has this statement always been on boxed Celeron
> processors?
Officially, Celerons have *never* supported multi-processor use.
Unofficially, the necessary ciruitry has been present but disabled;
there have been a couple of ways to re-enable it. Intel disapproves,
and what they've been talking about is actually removing it; as far
as I know, they have not yet done so.
[Reminder: Win 9x will only *use* one CPU. In order to get any
benefit from a second CPU, you must run an OS that supports multi-CPU
configurations: NT, Linux, etc.]
David G
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