Old-school dual cpu question

[AgentGreen]

Okay, so for shits and giggles and because I have 10 bucks and a shit-ton of old CPUs I want to make a dual CPU machine with a dual slot-1 motherboard i just bought on eBay.

But I have a question: can you pull it off with two different speed processors or is it better if i keep it consistent? Because I have p3 600mhz and several p2 400mhz that I feel compelled to do SOMETHING with other than throw them out.

[hearld500]

I think you're better off sticking with matching speeds so timing isn't off.
Not 100% sure though.

[APE]

They need to be the exact same CPU, stepping and all.

[AgentGreen]

They need to be the exact same CPU, stepping and all.

Good thing I have 8 of the goddamn things

[Calavera]

They need to be the exact same CPU, stepping and all.

Good thing I have 8 of the goddamn things

Then make an Octoprocessor machine.

[Quzar]

Without extremely specialized hardware, you cannot just stick a normal processor into a multi-processor board. Dual slot motherboards work on "Slot 2" which is the dual CPU version of Slot 1.

The exception would be wire or bridge modding Althlon XPs into MPs, or using some of the 1+ghz P3s that made it to uniprocessor machines.

[Disheveled DrFreeze]

Without extremely specialized hardware, you cannot just stick a normal processor into a multi-processor board. Dual slot motherboards work on "Slot 2" which is the dual CPU version of Slot 1.

The exception would be wire or bridge modding Althlon XPs into MPs, or using some of the 1+ghz P3s that made it to uniprocessor machines.

ive seen slot1 celerons with a small wire-mod to make them work in MP boards, as this was all the rage back in the celeron 300A days, take two cheapy celerons, overclock em to 450 mhz, pair em up and have a rig that beats the fastest pentium 2 for half the price

im sure there are some guides to be found about modding a slot1 cpu to run in a multi-slot config

[AgentGreen]

Well I was outbid on it anyways so it doesn't matter now. Anyone wanna buy a 600mhz p3 or one of many 400mhz p2s?

[Quzar]

Without extremely specialized hardware, you cannot just stick a normal processor into a multi-processor board. Dual slot motherboards work on "Slot 2" which is the dual CPU version of Slot 1.

The exception would be wire or bridge modding Althlon XPs into MPs, or using some of the 1+ghz P3s that made it to uniprocessor machines.

ive seen slot1 celerons with a small wire-mod to make them work in MP boards, as this was all the rage back in the celeron 300A days, take two cheapy celerons, overclock em to 450 mhz, pair em up and have a rig that beats the fastest pentium 2 for half the price

im sure there are some guides to be found about modding a slot1 cpu to run in a multi-slot config

Ah, I was under the impression that slot 2 was physically different from slot 1. That's quite interesting to know.

[Disheveled DrFreeze]

Without extremely specialized hardware, you cannot just stick a normal processor into a multi-processor board. Dual slot motherboards work on "Slot 2" which is the dual CPU version of Slot 1.

The exception would be wire or bridge modding Althlon XPs into MPs, or using some of the 1+ghz P3s that made it to uniprocessor machines.

ive seen slot1 celerons with a small wire-mod to make them work in MP boards, as this was all the rage back in the celeron 300A days, take two cheapy celerons, overclock em to 450 mhz, pair em up and have a rig that beats the fastest pentium 2 for half the price

im sure there are some guides to be found about modding a slot1 cpu to run in a multi-slot config

Ah, I was under the impression that slot 2 was physically different from slot 1. That's quite interesting to know.

i actually got two celeron 333A's from a mate with the required wire-mods after i scavenged two slot-1 mobos, they had been running in a dual slot server for a while. i never ended up doing anything with them though