Re: Twin Celeries on dual board

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 5 Jun 1999, Richard wrote:

> > I've not used this combo, but note that you don't necessarily have to
> > 'butcher' the hardware, however fun that is ;))
> erm... well, I'm not really that sort of engineer (sorry for
> mentioning Microsoft salesman).

Sorry. . . I thought you were referring to the numerous 'net articles that
start with 'Cut track 42 by jumper n, solder a wire across..' etc. ;) Then
people expect their computers to still work, hehh.

> You can get adaptors from
> > various places that will 'adjust' Celerys for use on dual-p2 boards
> > without the chop-chop-chop.
> Name any suppliers ?

Urr, Uk, hmm, not sure. Plenty of Yanks doing the business -
http://www.powerleap.com/
http://www.censuspc.com/
And apparently www.cantek.com have shipped to europe before, although I
suspect any US company will glady take your dollars. I reckon there'll
probably be some UK distributer about if you look around.

You'll have to choose carefully tho' - some celery adaptors won't SMP,
and you'll also want 450s rather than 466s I would guess, because then you
get the 100Mhz memory bandwidth.

Probably the best place is tomshardware.com - Tom got a Celeron to
overclock to 618Mhz. They compared it with a p3-500 and by all accounts
the P3 was toast. Also, American Megatrends have a board that will run
quad-P2s. The phrase 'boys with toys' springs to mind. . . often, these
hardware sites feel like Hotrod magazines. I'll stick to my 6x86 166+ I
think !!

Cheers,

Alex.

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