[SLUG] [OT] how many types of Celeron are there.

["Jeff Waugh" <jdub@nospam.student.usyd.edu.au>]

> I'm trying to build a twin-Celeron machine using
> a Mainboard BP6, which claims to be able to
> accept one or two Celeron 300A~466.
> I have been offered two Celeron 433 chips but the
> barcode label glued onto their boxes says
> FOR UNIPROCESSOR SYSTEMS ONLY.
>
> What's going on, please?


The Celeron was never designed to run in multiple CPU systems, and
setting up a dual Celeron machine will void your warranty.

However, a fewer clever cookies have managed to trick Celerons into
thinking it's okay to run in a multi-processor system.

Your motherboard integrates this hack into its feature set, so the
warning on the chip means tosh, unless you are worried about the
warranty...

Read up on a few good hardware sites like tomshardware and
sharkyextreme - you'll find out all you need to know there.


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