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Re: server hardware




On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, tuvia beker wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:
> 
> > > I want to buy duel CPU board with 2 celerion A class 300 MHZ proccesors
> > > and 128 MB SDRAM 100 MHZ memory chip.
> > 
> > have fun. if you can make it work, please tell us and Intel, because they
> > claim Celerons would never run in SMP.
> 
> It can be done, but involves micro-surgery on the cpu's pcb. People have
> been able to run two 300A celerons, at 450 MHz (!!) on a dual board (!!!). 
> Check http://bxboards.pair.com/dual.htm for the details of the operation.

yeah, I read that long ago, I'm pretty sure it's illegal, though intel may
not want to waste their time on a couple of crazy hackers. resoldering CPU
pinouts? no thanks, not for me. one screwup and hundreds of $$$ down the
drain (guess what, no store will take it back either)

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