I'm building a two processor computer. I know Win 98 won't support dual procs, NT 4.0 will. No info on Win 2000. Does anybody know?

By Samuel Defenbaugh on Friday, March 02, 2001 - 02:36 pm:

Win2000 is the upgrade for Win NT 4, so it should
Ride Safe
Sam

By Michael John Emmett on Friday, March 02, 2001 - 04:14 pm:

Is there something a twin processor system has over a single processor system that unless you work for NASA you'd notice, you know full well that as soon as you've completed your new twin system AMD or Intel will bring out a new processor that will run twice as fast and do twice as many things in half the time your now old out of date system does.

Good Luck

By Danny Lee Blodgett on Friday, March 02, 2001 - 05:06 pm:

Mike: I can tell a potential employer that I built a twin processor system, and it worked.

There are already faster processors, this is a dual 533 Celeron.

The motherboard has two IDE chips and 8 IDE ports. I can run 3 disc drives, a CD, a CDRW, a Zip, a DVD and still have a spare IDE port. I am building it for cross-media transfers and video capture. The dual processor is just an added feature.

I did work at a NASA satellite tracking station, for over 15 years. Got replaced by a robot ( The TDRS series of satellites ) with 5 computers. Now I study the art of building and repairing computers.

By Stephen L. Cunningham on Friday, March 02, 2001 - 06:15 pm:

Danny
Puters are fun to dink with. You can have the same 8 drive capacity by just installing an ATA100 controller card in an outdated single processor mother board. I put one in this Abit BH6, flashed the Bios found a FCPPG adaptor and cranked it up to 700MHZ. It runs well but it is still constricted by the 66 mhz buss. I think you will run into the same bottleneck with your 533's unles you clock them. There may be some processor issues that prevent your Celeron's form working on a dual processor board unless it was specifically designed for Celeron's. Many of the dual processor boards specicicaly state that they will not work with celeron processors. Your 533's are probably socket 370's, you may be able to resolve some of the issues with a slot one mothereboard and seperate adaptors that have their own on board settings for voltage and frequency. There is a lot of good information on some of the clocking sites such as.

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/
http://www.overclockers.com/
http://www.overclockers.com/
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral
http://www.ars-technica.com/

I am sure that there are many more.

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By Jim Wise on Friday, March 02, 2001 - 06:56 pm:

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/
http://www.overclockers.com/
http://www.overclockers.com/
http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral
http://www.ars-technica.com/

You guys are talking over my head again, but I did learn to copy and paste, which is what I did with the above links. BBS made them into links for me, not sure why they didn't post that way for Steve.

Now I can go take a look easier!

By Danny Lee Blodgett on Saturday, March 03, 2001 - 10:42 am:

Stephen - mobo is an Abit BP6 dual processor. Only dual processor Celeron mobo made. Fastest combo without overclocking is 2 533 PPGA celerons.

By Stephen L. Cunningham on Saturday, March 03, 2001 - 07:31 pm:

Danny
It seems that you have the hardware figured out. Abit boards are very good. I can't offer any help with the software. My latest project is an 850 Athalon. It seems to have quit a performance boost over anything I have built to date. I bought the Mother board, processor and HUGE cooling fan from Tiger Direct a couple weeks ago for $159, case and power supply was $54 from a local shop, 128 meg of pc133 memory was around $40. It should make for a nice performing budget system.

Jim
I don't have a clue why my links don't show up as links when I copy/paste the url. They just don't. Probably some setting somewhere that I don't have enabled. Lots of interesting reading on some of those sites. I had a Celeron 300A clocked at 450 for a couple of years.

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By Randy Simpson on Tuesday, March 20, 2001 - 01:25 pm:

Which version of Win 2000? Professional supports up to two processors, Server (4), Advanced Server (8) and Datacenter Server (16). Depending on the mobo you may not see much difference, also you have to enable multi processor support manually, it's not enabled by default. I've seen sys admins complain about the poor performance on their quad processor systems only to find out that only one was running.

Randy