can anyone recommend a good dual....

[king_kahuna]

...processor motherboard to support PII chips, sdram and fit in an ATX tower case.

[rylan9]

I will recomend on that supports celeron... The abit bp6. I have used it a lot and I love it! I run linux win95 and win2000 on it and it is nice with a celery 366 & 400 at 85mhz bus

[Carl Uman]

You may want to list the model of you case so we know what size of MB to recommend. Tyan, Supermicro, and Asus are all good choices.

[Erny Baghak II]

Asus P2B- works great for me...

[nastee]

I have an EPoX KP6-BS
I'm very happy with it
It supports PII and PIII
one thing you must know about dual's is
you must buy the processors the same time from the same source
also you must make sure the one you are getting are dual capable (not all are)
example: PIII 550 coppermines there 4 differant modles
~Nastee~

[Menestheus]

Why must both processors be purchased at the same time and from the same source? I was planning on getting a dual mobo and spending $$ on getting the second processor when I replentished the piggy bank.

I assumed that as long as I purchased the EXACT same part number (BX80526U733256E) processor then all would be "cool".

No??

[scmgk]

You don't have to buy them at the same time from the same source. All you have to do is make sure that they both have the same stepping. I bought one CPU with my motherboard, and got the second 6 months later. All I had to do is tell the supplier this this CPU was going to be installed on a dual system. They agreed to take it back if it didn't work, so I bought it. Fortunatelly, it worked.

So, make sure your two CPUs have the same stepping. This is the only thing that counts on a symmetric multiprocessing system. Even a P-II will work with a P-III, provided their stepping is identical.

[nastee]

Is that how it works
maybe the guy that explained it to me either didn't know or just figured it was easier to explain.
I do know they had to match in some way
(I'm no expert)
I also found out that they made differant prossesors of the same Mhz
like my 550e's Intel make 4 differant models
only 2 of them are dual capable

[scmgk]

Of course, the two processors MUST be dual capable as well