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SubjectRe: [Fwd: Dual Celery on BP6]
On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> The bx chipset was designed to support dual cpus running at 100mhz fsb...

Exactly. Why is the BP6 having problems doing so?

> unless the chipset you have is defective or you've had to goose the
> voltage to the cpu's , any issues you see relating to the overclock should
> be cpu related. first generation bx dual boards such as the tyan 1832 have
> no heatsink at all and appeared at the time to operate nominally with the
> pII-350/400's of the era.

I am running my C300As at a stock 2.0V with a 100MHz FSB. I get the APIC
error messages on an irregular basis.

> my experience with mixed lots of 366 cpu's was that somewhat less than 40%
> were what I'd describe as"stable" at 550mhz, which led me to conclude that
> implementing dual 550's on a large scale was not feasable. I've settled
> for dual 466's and 500's which appart from lower fsb speed (and lower
> stream scores) seem to perform reasonably.

The 366 is not nearly as stable as the 300As were. People automatically
thought they were for some odd reason.

Mike.

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