RobRich
02-13-2000, 05:02 PM
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Has anyone actually seen one of these boards? I believe that this one is a Gigsbyte model that never made it into full stream production. I know QDI released a slcoket convertor that will support two celerons on one board, but you have to buy one their specialty boards to get it. The idea of two cpu's on one slocket is not that difficult, as long as the motherboard has bios support for the cpu's. BX chipsets already support two cpu's, if the bios is encoded for it. As for running two cpu's in the same slot, Intel's SMP standard uses one bus with two timing signals, so the slocket just has to trick the bus into believing htat there is two different slots. Sounds difficult, but it's not that hard.
[This message has been edited by RobRich (edited 02-13-2000).]
(Pic hosted by personal web site.)
Has anyone actually seen one of these boards? I believe that this one is a Gigsbyte model that never made it into full stream production. I know QDI released a slcoket convertor that will support two celerons on one board, but you have to buy one their specialty boards to get it. The idea of two cpu's on one slocket is not that difficult, as long as the motherboard has bios support for the cpu's. BX chipsets already support two cpu's, if the bios is encoded for it. As for running two cpu's in the same slot, Intel's SMP standard uses one bus with two timing signals, so the slocket just has to trick the bus into believing htat there is two different slots. Sounds difficult, but it's not that hard.
[This message has been edited by RobRich (edited 02-13-2000).]