Dual AMD with other than MP cpus?

#1 EM

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Posted 22 August 2001 - 08:36 AM

Anybody seen any links besides Anandtech regarding AMD cpus in dual? Just wondering how the regular 1.4Ghz do in SMP compared to the MP versions or the P4 1.7Ghz.

#2 INFERNO2000

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Posted 22 August 2001 - 04:29 PM

Well, if 1 1.4 AMD smacks the 1.7 P4 around, imagine what 2 will do

If you're going dual, go for AMD. wait a month or 2 if you can---the MPX boards to come out.
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#3 Brian Frank

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 04:19 AM

The Duron 1GHz with the Morgan core is on par with, and sometimes beathing the T-Bird!! 8) Yowza!
Have a couple of those baby's in the Tyan Tiger K7...Oh, yeah. Too bad I can't afford it.:(

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 04:48 AM

Well, should know the answer to my question of whether this works by Sunday (assuming that the Tiger S2460 arrives on Friday as promised) since I have 2 1.4Ghz Non-MP Athlons to try in it.

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Posted 23 August 2001 - 05:43 AM

It'll probably work, however, the Morgan and Palimino cores were specifically guaranteed to work in SMP. AMD has had SMP chips as old as the K-5's, but there was never a chipset to support this, therefore we have no idea how it would've worked out.
Anandtech had good luck with dual non-MP's, I read.

Probably want to check out 2Cpu.com