Jeremy (mailing list box) wrote:
> Back in the early, early days of SMP with Pentium Pros and the early
> PIIs, yes you did have to match your CPUs by their "stepping." And if
> you were adding a CPU several months after the original, it was often
> difficult to match. Having a different stepping on your processor was
> hit or miss as to whether it worked or not, so you strived to have the
> same stepping...
This is slightly OT, but I'm definitely working with an early P2-333
here. It's a SL2S5, with a (per Intel) stepping of "dA1," whatever that
means. I don't know if that qualifies as "early, early" or not. I know I
will be able to find a second proc down the line. Hello, eBay.
> The one requirement that still remains, however, is that your CPUs need
> to all have the same speed to get the maximum performance. If you
> don't match them, the system ends up running the faster processor at the
> speed of the slower processor...
Great, I can fry an egg on the overclocked proc.
MDK
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