Athlon thunderbird dualie?

[DaveSauce]

You know, for some reason, I'm thinking that the older Athlon Thunderbird chips are SMP ready....am I imagining things, or can this be done?

[cmcquistion]

It has been done before, but they are not SMP chips, so it is a crap-shoot.

[IFMU]

Ive heard that some have been succesful on using the T-Birds in the Tyan MP boards.
Any of the MPX boards wont recognize them.
So if you had a pair of TBirds you could get the MP board and give it a shot. If it didnt work it would be an easy sell if you wanted to go that route. Or even spend another 100 bucks and get a pair of Durons. :D

[DaveSauce]

Hrm....so durons do SMP no problem? That may be an option....

O well, i just bought a 1.0 athlon off ebay...the reason I was asking is because I have a 1.2 athlon that might be free in a few weeks, and I was hoping I could OC the 1.0 to 1.2 and use them in dual....but come to think of it, I dont think thats possible, lol.

[IFMU]

Some of the Durons work ok. The Spitfire cores Im not to positive about. I presently have a pair of 1.3 Durons (Morgan Cores) in a dual right now. So this I know works.

[eli]

Did you have to connect the L5 bridge with the Morgan cores? I am looking at getting 2 of those chips... had a nasty accident today... :(

[IFMU]

Yea I just read your thread there, sorry for the loss. Sucks dont it?

No mods were done to these chips. I bought them some time ago from Newegg, and got the board, Tyan 2466 MPX board from there as well refurbed.
Not a single hassle with it yet either!

[eli]

Yeah, looks like that's the direction i'm going.

I should probably get the 1.3's since I can't really adjust the multiplier on the Asus motherboard.

[FunkDaMonkMan]

i used two 1.4ghz t-birds for nearly a year in a tyan s2460

[BigL]

Anyone got unmatched athlon tbirds to work in a tyan s2460 yet?

[{PMS}fishy]

Originally posted by BigL
Anyone got unmatched athlon tbirds to work in a tyan s2460 yet?

Did you see the post above. The clock speeds won't matter, the chips will run at the speed of the lower one. You could mod the bridges so both chips are seen as the same to remove any more variables. Again, as it was said, its a crap shoot with Thunderbirds and Spitfires.

[dr0p0ut]

i am still running two tbird 1.4 on tigerMP. using bios 1.4
had no problem.

( mind you tigerMP do burn out its atx connector
when u plug in too many power hunger component,
mine burn out the second i put in my third scsi card and
3x u2w 10k scsi drive in software raid0)

i would go with duron, you have wirder range of board to choose from

dr0p0ut

[Quailane]

Just get two 1.4Ghz durons with the applebred core. You'll be much happier than morgan durons for the same price.

[diehrd]

The T-Bird will with out a doubt run in a dual system. The facts are that the MP chipset was developed with the T-Bird being used as its testing processor. Matter of fact it was the T-Bird that inspired AMD to go dual in the first place.