I've got an MSI 694D Pro2 motherboard (Dual Pentium III)... searching on google hints toward this board working with Tualatins (PIII-s I believe?) but, I can't seem to find a for sure answer.
Anyone know?
wrote:I've got an MSI 694D Pro2 motherboard (Dual Pentium III)... searching on google hints toward this board working with Tualatins (PIII-s I believe?) but, I can't seem to find a for sure answer.
Anyone know?
It is a fcpga1 board. Natively Boards with that spec can't use tuallies but as I mentioned in previous posts, you can buy modded 1400-s chips on ebay adapted to FCPGA1 that work with your board.
wrote:Ebay link to modded CPU: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tualatin-P-IIIs-1-4GH … =item3f04fd9f47
I'm assuming these will work in SMP?
Also, what about the BIOS? So long as it picks up later coppermines it should be fine?
EDIT: I see the motherboard ("MS-6321" 694D pro) is listed, so I would assume the Pro2 wouldn't have a problem. My only concern still is the modded ones working in SMP.
tuallies are SMP, they were the last consumer chip with SMP support that i know of.
wrote:tuallies are SMP, they were the last consumer chip with SMP support that i know of.
Not all Tualatins, only the PIII-S variants. According to CPU-World.com neither the Tualatin PIII with 256kb L2 nor the Tualatin-Celerons are SMP.
And I'd hardly call a PIII-S a consumer chip. See eg. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/display/news1136.html
Relevant part:
According to the official Intel’s position, new Pentium III-S 1.4GHz processors are targeted for general purpose dual-processor servers and rack-mount servers. The manufacturer also claims that the Pentium III-S CPUs do not work in regular desktop mainboards, even in those supporting Tualatin.
(Of course we all know that the latter is not true.)
The reason that those chips where not called Xeons is probably that by the time the first PIII-S was released there already where Netburst-based Xeons.
I guess i was late to the game so they seemed more common to me since they are cheap.
