On Thursday 16 September 2004 16:42, Andrew McCall wrote:
IIRC the Athlon is a ridiculously scalable processor. I believe you could theoretically run over ~128 together.
There isn't a motherboard that can actually do this, but I think this scalability has been built in to the chip since the very early days.
As far as I remember even the K6-II or K6-III had the capability to run in a dual config, but thit was never officially claimed or supported by AMD, and there were never any motherboards for it. The first Athlons were definitely dual capable, but again, no mobo. There are several hardware tweaker/guru sites that used put pretty much all the socket A CPUs (i.e. from the Spitfire core Durons and T-Bird Athlons to the Barton core Athlons) in dual motherboards. Some required some hardware modding, but all worked well. I've seen a board with two 1Ghz Durons in, that performed really really sweet. -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy Newington Consulting Services hansdp at newingtoncs dot co dot za