Messages in this thread | | | From | Shane Nay <> | Subject | Re: amd nvidia and mem=nopentium | Date | Tue, 19 Mar 2002 07:11:22 -0800 |
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> I'd go Athlon > > > Do you have pointers showing stability problems when using > > XP processor in a multiprocessor context ? > > Remember the XP's haven't been tested in MP configurations (or > tested and failed). The same was true of celerons and as most > people found the fail rate was pretty low 8)
You have to bridge L5-4 on the newest XP CPUs though. My Tyan Tiger boards' BIOS was giving me something like- 00Error Failed
Turned out it needed those guys bridged up. It's not that difficult though, I had a circuit pen lying about and just drew in a trace :). (You don't have to fill the cracks like the overclock bridges)
Anyway, it was pretty easy, but I wouldn't suggest it for the faint of heart. Running 2.4.18 happily now in dual config with no stability problems. I have compiled the kernel a few times, compiled Qt, all of KDE, xemacs, glibc, gcc, and a couple billion other things that I can't remember right now. So, no stability problems with the newest XPs and a hand closed L5-4 bridge. (So far anyway :) )
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