Re: ASUS Dual Pentium w/Neptune chipset?

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From: Charles (Charlie)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 23:21

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Brendan Getchel <getchel@pcnet.com> writes:


>> I am using a P5-90 on the ASUS dual PCI/I-P54NP4D board. I can feel the
>> speed increased when this board was running at 2 cpus. The reason I bought
>> this board - so I can upgrade later when I have money to buy another CPU.


>	Unless you are running an OS that supports SMP (ie; NT, Unix) your 
>"feeling" of a performance gain is psychological. Additionally, you cannot just 
>place another P54C into the secondary CPU socket when operating 90mHz CPU's. 
>The second processor must be a P54CM which has a slightly different pin 
>configuration to let the system know which one to use during a non-SMP session.

>Brendan


Yes, I am using it under NT 3.5
Also, the newer pentium with SX968 (unsure) has build-in APIC so you can
plug in either sockets.

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Subject: Re: ASUS Dual Pentium w/Neptune chipset?
Date: 14 Mar 1995 23:21:15 GMT
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