How's this motherboard?

[t048]

I was trying to say that with my last post...lol, you said it in a less verbose way! *I think ph34r is right, though. *While you won't be able to drop two 800mhz classic socket a T-birds in and do the dually thing, you should be able to use one older one until you can afford to buy two of the smp-aware models. *Sounds like a great idea to me.

I think that is a great idea. Do you recommend any multiprocessor motherboards?

[Compunuts]

the xp and mp can do multi processor, the older tbirds can't.

Yeah, that's the problem for now. The chip you sent is older processor which can't do SMP. I will just have to wait and upgrade when the XPs get cheaper, I guess. But this one upgrade should gave me some power boost though.... Thanks 8)

[Compunuts]

I was under the impression that Duron/XP/MP were socket A and the older Athlons were slot A. *Is your 800 a slot or a socket?

There were older Slot A athlons as well as Socket A athlons. The older socket A athlons do not support SMP set up.

[t048]

Here are the AMD recommended motherboards for the MP processor.

Tyan Thunder K7 (S2462) (pricewatch: ~190usd)
Tyan Tiger MPX (S2466) (pricewatch: ~210usd)
Microstar (MSI) K7D Master (MS-6501) (pricewatch: ~199usd)
Asus A7M266-D (pricewatch: ~90usd)

The Asus is definitely the best price-wise. *The Tyan Tiger looks best specs-wise, but I don't think I can afford one. *What do you think?

[pbharris]

wow - a dually for $90 - i like my asus board very much - stable, i ahve had it for almost two years w/o and issue.