How do I know that this mobo will support Tualatins?

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I have been looking at the Gigabyte 6VTXD Dual Socket 370 motherboard for awhile now, and I can probably get some 1.2 for pretty cheap. Would this motherboard support FC-PGA chips? Sorry, Im an amd guy, and dont know alot about intel. Thanks.

 

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yep, and it looks like a sweet board

http://tw.giga-byte.com/products/6vtxd.htm

 

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logos said:

yep, and it looks like a sweet board

http://tw.giga-byte.com/products/6vtxd.htm

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I second that

 

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Just to make sure... http://www.directron.com/12512.html this will work with it right? The FC-PGA2 will work with it. I like the idea of having massive amounts of cheap ram in it.

 

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Also, the manufacturer doesnt say what kind of ram. Like ECC, or just regular. Could I use 1.5 gigs of regular pc133 ram in it? This post is also a clever disguise as a bump for the question before. thanks.

 

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that cpu will work, but you ought to get the celeron 1.1a tualatin instead, you can run it at 133 and it will perform better than the pIII and is WAY cheaper, i.e. $40. (intel secret!) the board supports fcpga and fcpga2.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProdu...e=0&propertycode=&propertycodevalue=4160,3890

regular pc133 ought to do the trick.

 

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Your saying one celery is better than 2 p3s?

 

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That processor you linked to was a PIII, not a PIII-S, and will not work in a dual processor configuration. PIII-S processor are available at 1.13, 1.26, and 1.40 speeds.

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Just to make sure, but its garrenteed to work in the board if I get a 1.13, or 1.26's? Those are like MP procs, right?

 

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It has to be a PIII-S, not a regular PIII. The correct chips will have 512k of L2 cache.

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Bear in mind that this is an Apollo Pro (Via 694T) chipset board. The T revision added the cpu support you are wanting, but it's still the same old junk 694x performance. Truly abysmal memory performance will prevent this from being a high performance platform. But I realize that actual function often gets sacrificed in the rush to embrace SMP rigs . i815 and i440BX outperform this chipset handily, by a large enough percentage to eclipse the benefit of SMP for all but the tasks most responsive to SMP technology.

 

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Hmmm, thanks for the invo larva... I do want to get into SMP, but since you have given me that little bit of info, I might just wait and save up for an AMD smp platform.

 

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I think that would be wise. The 694 is an underachieving chipset, and the lack of memory throughput can only cripple you more as you have two cpu's to feed with data. I would either think about a BP6 Abit (440BX) or the AMD route you mentioned. I assume BP6's can be made to work with P4-S's, but you might want to spend some time in the SMP section of the forum and get a better feel for what the viable and cost effective solutions look like.

I don't think I have to tell you I'm not a big SMP fan, only certain tasks really respond to it. Be sure you are realistic about what your uses for the machine include and how responsive those tasks are to SMP. It may be better to put the money into something like a HT P4, or perhaps just an evil fast Tbred B or non HT P4 rig.