thanks beemer
i have the ide raid 0.1 model
so that doesn't go kablooey from what you are saying?
so the  limit is  dual 1 ghz pIII's?
or a celeron up to 1.1 or 1.3?
franco
"Beemer Biker" <antispam@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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"frank" <franco1955@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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thanks gary
using the acorp 6a815epd board....

I have two dual 6a815epd1, one with raid, one without
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=NORAID-6A815EPD1 ($26)
the non-raid failed with the same symptom as 5 other motherboards i have,
the capacitors puffed out 6-9 months or so after being placed into

service.

Hopefully, the capacitors acorp used on your board are from a different
batch then the ones acorp, alton, pc-chips, and chaintech used on other
motherboards I have bought.  Neither of these (epd1) boards handled the
tualitin chip so were limted to 1ghz for P3.  If you have not yet bought

the

epd1, you might want to consider the gigabyte:
http://www.accupc.com/itemDetail.jsp?pid=mbga6vtxd&refer=PriceWatch
It cost 3x ($87) what I paid for the 6a815epd1, but is much higher quality
and I have not had any problem with them.  Note that if you wish to use
tulatin P3 (1.2, 1.3) you must specifically buy the "smp-capable" ones

which

cost much more than the "normal" 1ghz SMP-P3.

socket 370...
manual says pentium III 1 ghz  can be doubled...
or use a celeron 1.1 ghz single..
assuming that 1.3 celeron would also work as a single...
franco
"Gary Heston" <gheston@hiwaay.net> wrote in message
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In article <uUMAb.84062$I53.4225230@twister.southeast.rr.com>,
frank <franco1955@hotmail.com> wrote:

Pentium III 1Ghz
or Celeron 1.1 Ghz
or Celeron 1.3 Ghz

can dual process the Pentium III

The P3 will be faster due to larger cache.

Using two of them in one motherboard will be slightly less fast
than twice the speed of one, as they share memory access.

Presumably, these are Slot 1 CPUs; you can only dual-process the
ones with 512K of cache, which wasn't available in Socket 370
below 1.26GHz (ran into that at work with some motherboards; they
were apparently designed to use chips Intel never released).


Gary

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