Ok guys, need you on this one..

I got a barton core 2800+ MOBILE processor out of a laptop.

From what I understand, the unlocked multiplier and and lower voltage requirements make these great overclockers..

But I want to go farther...

I was given a dual socket motherboard, and was wondering if anyone knows if the 2800+ mobile can be used in a dual processor setup?

I know the board was made for the MP processors, but from what I understand the desktop XP processors were also SMP aware..

Any thoughts?

I would guess that it should work fine but you may have to mod them to MP settings...

myststix said:

I got a barton core 2800+ MOBILE processor out of a laptop.

From what I understand, the unlocked multiplier and and lower voltage requirements make these great overclockers..

But I want to go farther...

I was given a dual socket motherboard, and was wondering if anyone knows if the 2800+ mobile can be used in a dual processor setup?

I know the board was made for the MP processors, but from what I understand the desktop XP processors were also SMP aware..

Any thoughts?

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Not sure about the Bartons but the L5 bridge mod could be used to make the Thoroughbreds SMP-capable (I did this with a previous PC and have pics and a write-up *somewhere*).

Google yielded thus:

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91425
http://www.geek.com/turn-an-athlon-xp-into-an-mp-easily/

You should be able to run it as a single processor system with just about any of the MP boards. But IIRC the MSI boards were very picky about trying to run 2 mobiles. I do know that the Asus A7M266-D MP board would run just fine with the mobile Bartons in it, but you have to do a multi mod to lock a higher multi in on it because it would only run with a 6 multi or something low like that. I used to have an A7M266-D system running 2 mobile 2400 Bartons and I did the wire-in-the-socket trick to hard code a 16 multi on them so they were sensed as MP2800 procs by the board. I also had to manually set the vcore to 1.65v via jumpers on the board too, so that it would apply the right vcore.

Ok, where do I get conductive paint? Anyone got bottle for sale?

The best way to set the multi and vcore on the mobiles is to do a pinmod instead of trying to paint the bridges. Here's a link to an interactive pinmod guide and let's you choose either the processor pin view or socket view. I found that using a very fine wire to connect the various pins worked well for me and was how I modded the 16 multi on the mobile procs in that old A7M266-D board. That system is still running to date as a dentists server.

I have two 2800 mobile bartons that I multi-locked to around 3000+ speeds and did the mp-unlock as well. They run in a MSI k7d

I had a K7D Master-L board which worked great with XP - MP modded chips but never had mobiles in it.

The pin mod is probably easier, but if you wanted to paint the bridges I used some rear window defogger kit which you can get from most car parts stores.