cheap yet decent dualie setup?

Jay23 · Aug 20, 2002

yep.. its that time for me to look into dualies!

what is a decent mobo(with a few o/cin'g abilitys... say multi/fsb/voltage) and 2 cpu's(perferably 1ghz each...maybe more depending on price)

i prefer an amd system over an intel

SickBoy · Aug 20, 2002

Take a look at my sig... the MB/processor combo was $300 on the nose, pretty decent if you ask me, though the AthlonXP 1600+ chips are dang cheap now and are easily modded for SMP....

Henry Rollins II · Aug 21, 2002

SickBoy said:
Take a look at my sig... the MB/processor combo was $300 on the nose, pretty decent if you ask me, though the AthlonXP 1600+ chips are dang cheap now and are easily modded for SMP....

But seriously tricky if u wish to change the mulitiplier.

regards,
Henry

Caffinehog · Aug 22, 2002

What kind of FSB will that motherboard hit? I'm thinking of dual AGOIA 1600XP's overclockerd.

And does it need ECC ram?

PYROMANIAC · Aug 22, 2002

is the only difference between the MP and XP chips is the bridge connections on the XP's to make them smp compatible?

edit:

Caffinehog said:
And does it need ECC ram?

the tiger mpx can take a certain amount of non ecc but most dually boards require reg ECC ram if im correct

Henry Rollins II · Aug 22, 2002

ALL mobos with AMD760MPX chipset accept unbuffered RAM in the first two slots. All dual AMD mobos except Tyan 2460 and 2462 have the 760MPX chipset.

The MP chips also have the multiplier bridges unlocked.

Don´t expect too much OC from these boards. Propably you cannot go over 145 Mhz FSB.

regards,
Henry

cruc1fy · Aug 22, 2002

PYROMANIAC said:
the tiger mpx can take a certain amount of non ecc but most dually boards require reg ECC ram if im correct

The Tiger MPX will take 4 gigs of non-ECC if you can find registered non-ECC 1024MB sticks.

In general, it's better to use registered dimms with the AMD760mpx chipset (though I have found that you can fill the boards with non-registered ram and they will be fairly stable) . I don't think ECC matters at all.

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