dual socket 7's???

[girish]

Well, I asked Raystonn about the issue and this what he had to say:

Going from most recent, here is a brief summary of the desktop Intel chipsets prior to the 8xx line:

- The 450NX chipset supported the Pentium II Xeon and Pentium III Xeon processors with 4-way multiprocessing.
- The 440GX chipset supported between 2-4 Pentium II Xeon or Pentium III Xeon processors in an SMP configuration.
- The 440BX chipset supported both single and dual Celeron, Pentium II, and Pentium III processors.
- The 440ZX chipset supported the Celeron, Pentium II, and Pentium III processors and had no SMP support.
- The 440LX chipset supported both single and dual Pentium II Processors.
- The 430HX chipset supported both single and dual Pentium Processors.
- The 430TX chipset supported the Pentium processor and had no SMP support.

There was no 440HX chipset. There are however many confused individuals with websites that claim otherwise.

Since ther 430HX chipset only supported the Pentium and not the Pentium-II, either Crashman is mistaken or some perverse guy with a soldering iron and lots of time created a Frankenstein's monster of a motherboard.

-Raystonn

Thanks Raystonn


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[Crashman]

Well, I'm not perfect, maybe they had 440FX chipsets on them and I forgot. I was almost certain they said HX on them.

Back to you Tom...

 

[girish]

well, cool crash!

I pursued the matter because <i>Crashman</i> was confident of the boards.

anyway, it did get out that 440HX does not exist and Pentium bus is not compatible with the P6 bus. updated our knowledge.

girish

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