On 9/9/05, Timo Schoeler <timo.schoeler@macfinity.net> wrote:
> >>My motherboard seems like it will run the PIII 500, but it won't do
> >>SMP mode, right?
> >
> >
> > We had a dual PIII-600 machine at work ages ago, as far as I remember
> > all PII and PIII are SMP-capable,
>=20
> yes, that's true. same is for the PPro. all use the GTL+ bus which
> implements MP.
>=20
> > Intel only decided to castrate them at
> > some point in the PIV line.
>=20
> all Celerons should be kind of castrated, tho some/most of them run in
> MP configs.

Ok, given this (which is good news, thanks), if my limitation seems to
be the 100mhz frontside bus, how fast can I go for CPUs? This is a
regular socket 370 motherboard. Didn't they change at some point to
not be compatible with the older socket 370?

Thanks all, this has been helpful.

Andy