Mike Leone on Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:34:55 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [PLUG] Duel Processors Motherboards...


>Hi list!
Hi!

>I am looking for a machine with a duel processor motherboard.  Possibly for
>a AMD Athlon.... or a intell P III.
>I would like the RAM to be upgradable as well.
>
>We are going to run Linux on it.. and are thinking of a duel processor
>machine because of the fact that its easy to upgrade (you just buy another
>processor:)  The large RAM capacity... for the same reason.

You don't need a dual-processor motherboard to upgrade the CPU. I've upgraded my mobo from a PII-233 to a PII-350 to a current PIII-550. 
You just need a decent mobo, that's all. Something with flash BIOS upgrades, you can can upgrade the BIOS to take advantage of later processors. Mine is an Asus P2B - the BIOS upgrades let me move from a PII to a PIII.

Same for RAM - you'll probably have to remove the current DIMM (say a 64M) and replace with a higher density (like a 256M).

how much RAM your mobo supports is a function of your mobo's design. Mine supports 768M; my girlfriends PII-350 based machine only supports 512M. But then, I have 3 DIMM slots, and she has only 2.



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