[geeks] PPro Overdrive chips, anyone used them???

[Geoff Reed]

You are correct, you can't go SMP with the PPRO Overdrive, it's single unit 
only.  you -should- get better performance out of the SMP PPro.

At 02:26 PM 5/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Many on these lists indicated they were fond of the PPro processor, so I 
>pose the following for feedback...
>
>At TCF there was a vendor with 333 MHz PPro Overdrive chips for about $80, 
>and I think I've seen them for about $90 on the Internet, any one log any 
>real time with one of these chips?
>
>IIRC, these are PII CPUs with 512K cache, not sure of cache speed though...
>
>Maybe I should have gotten one of those chips instead of going SMP PPro @ 
>200 MHz (the cost to upgrade will be about $70 - $40 for the VRM, $18 for 
>the CPU, and $10 for the PPro fan)... But hey, the PPro Overdrive chips 
>can't do SMP, IIRC...
>
>Anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
>Ken
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