[geeks] P2 VRM

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Wed May 15 11:16:30 CDT 2002


On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:04:35AM -0500, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> It all depends. I have seen some PII boards with VRM's, but my Tyan Tiger
> 100 doesn't use VRM's (neither do any of the Dual PII/III boards at work).
> 
> Most Xeon and dual PPro boards use VRM's.

The machine in question is an old HP Kayak.  I know it uses some sort of
Intel 440 chipset, but I can't tell from HPs web site which one.  I don't
know if chipset has anything to do with whether VRMs would be required 
though.  I didn't see any mention on HPs web site about VRMs for Kayaks, but
I also failed to find which chipset is used.  I didn't even know that varied
the chipsets for the Kayak XUs until Crucial asked what it was.

Well, hopefully the machine minus CPUs, ram, and HD will only cost me $40,
and I have RAM and HD, just need CPUs and maybe VRMs.  Just wish I could
find something definative about this particular machine.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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