Dual K6-2s

[Tebore]

I was wondering if u could run dual K6-2s i currently use a 500mhz and have a 300 laying around. Today i saw a Super 7 mobo which had 2 sockets on it. the board is pretty cheap due to the fact of it being in a used parts store.

 

[diehrd]

No there is no board I know of that runs dual AMD except the current line up of boards

 

[SickBoy]

are you SURE this had dual socket 7 sockets?

and are you sure it was dual SUPER 7 sockets?

I know dual socket 5 (same form factor as socket 7) boards existed, but I am almost 100% sure dual super socket 7 boards existed.

Remeber, there is a difference between socket 7 and Super Socket 7.

sb

 

[Sir-Epix]

I have heard of dual and quad socket 7 motherboards, but never a dual/quad Super Socket 7 motherboard which is needed to run those processors. I do not believe running those in SMP is possible for they were never designed to do so. Just my 2 cents, but I could be wrong.

 

[Flamed_Chip]

Yeah, I once owned a dual socket 7 board, but never heard of a dual super 7 board? If you know of anywhere I could get one though, Let me know

 

[portorock]

Don't the cpu's have to run @hte same spped for SMP to work, he has a 500 and a 300MHZ chip, will that work? If that's the case, hypothetically speaking, I could pair my 1600+ with a 2100+.

 

[bergie007]

Dual Socket7 boards exist (I have one!) but no chipsets supporting dual Super7 chips were ever produced owing to the fact that the K6 series of chips had no APIC circuitry and could therefore not do dual. HOWEVER!!: the Pentium 1's up to the 233's run perfectly well in dual mode. If the board you are looking at is a Giagabyte Ga-586dx (like mine) go to this site for info on how to hack the board to run a single K6-2 or K6-3. If it's not the board, try a search to see if there has been a hack for it.

Otherwise, sorry mate - no AMD's except the Athlon FCPGA's can do dual. Hard luck. You can't run two different speeds of processor either (although I did...stable!) as this would be AMP or Assymetric Multi Processing. No go on most machines. If the board has DIMM slots then you may land a bargain as it's probably a S370 board.

Good luck

 

[SickBoy]

You can't run two different speeds of processor either (although I did...stable!) as this would be AMP or Assymetric Multi Processing.

"SMP" and "AMP" refer to workload division. SMP means tasks/processes are evenly split between all processors, AMP is the opposite, obviously. For example, in an AMP machine, one processor would run the OS and another would run the apps. But you get the idea.

 

[adamtekh]

ive seen dual socket 8s for pent pros , got one @ school


it has a 150 and a 180 clocked @ 200 mhz , with linux

its completly stable

some hp, thing scsi drives to

 

[Tebore]

Oh well looks like it's not possible from what i hear. I didn't know there was a diff between socket7 and super7. the board has Dimm slots but not an AGP slot. i was kinda just browsing around so i didn't pay attention to what it was, but it got me thinking. thx for the replies