Matched Pair Processors

[George Hester]

Hello I am going to be buying 2 PII Xeon Processors for my dual system.
But I understand for these to work in the system they must be a matched
pair. My understanding of what this means is that they must have Stepping
that is the same. Is that right? These processors are new in the box. The
seller says they both have the same Product Code, Batch #, and Pack date.
Is that enough to determine they are Matched pairs and if not what could be
inferred from the boxes telling me that they are Matched Pairs? Thanks.

 

[Zilog Jones]

Hello I am going to be buying 2 PII Xeon Processors for my dual system.
But I understand for these to work in the system they must be a matched
pair. My understanding of what this means is that they must have
Stepping
that is the same. Is that right? These processors are new in the box.
The
seller says they both have the same Product Code, Batch #, and Pack date.
Is that enough to determine they are Matched pairs and if not what could
be
inferred from the boxes telling me that they are Matched Pairs? Thanks.

If by the specification code printed on the processors are the same e.g.
SLxxx, they should be OK - worked for me anyway in a dual PII system. If
the stepping is different they'll have different spec codes and part
numbers.

 

[George Hester]

If by the specification code printed on the processors are the same e.g.
SLxxx, they should be OK - worked for me anyway in a dual PII system. If
the stepping is different they'll have different spec codes and part
numbers.

Thanks Zilog. I have two PII Xeon Processors already and looked on the
boxes. The Product code numbers both end SL33U so it looks like I already
have two matched pairs. Thanks for explaining that to me. I'd like to ask
you one more question. The ones I was thinking of buying have L2 Cache of
2MB. The ones I have are L2 Cache of 1MB. Can you tell me what are the
advantages of having a larger L2 Cache and would the 2MB ones be noticably
different then the 1MB set with respect to whatever an L2 Cache is good for?
Thanks. Oh both sets are the same Hz the only difference in the sets are
the L2 cache sizes.

 

[Mike Walsh]

A larger cache is better because the required data and code can more often be found in the faster cache than the slower system memory. That being said, you might not see a significant difference, depending on the applications.

 

[Myrrapen]

MOBO can handle those new CPUs

 

[George Hester]

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MOBO can handle those new CPUs?

Yes Perfectly. It is an Intel Spearfish dual Xeon PII 450 MHz. We believe
it will also take a slot 1 PIII Xeon. What do you think?

 

[Myrrapen]

Howdy

I poked around and found little info on the Spearfish boards. I di
find info on Gateway.com.

If the speed works for you and you see it will work, I say HAPP
TINKERING!

 

[George Hester]

Howdy!

I poked around and found little info on the Spearfish boards. I did
find info on Gateway.com.

If the speed works for you and you see it will work, I say HAPPY
TINKERING!!

 

[George Hester]

Howdy!

I poked around and found little info on the Spearfish boards. I did
find info on Gateway.com.

If the speed works for you and you see it will work, I say HAPPY
TINKERING!!

Hi Myrrapen. This thing may have gone out inadvertantly. Sorry if it did.
Yes I went to Intel and tried to search on the board name and didn't find
anything. This board is supposedly pretty good I guess a server board at
one time but hard to verify. For example it had two three pin plugs for CPU
cooling fans but no where to mount them. The description at Gateway leaves
out any discription on how to mount them so now I am running them without
CPU fans. I know a major bad but what can I do? No schematic on how to
mount them leaves one in this predicamaent. You wouln't have any idea how
to mount them or what fans would work? Here is a link to the board:

http://support.gateway.com/s/MOTHERBD/INTEL/m00427/M0042701.shtml

 

[Myrrapen]

Yep. that's the same info I came up with at Gateway. Man, running wit
no cooling
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The Slot chips are a little different from the typical ZIF chips

The heatsink/fan mounts onto (around) the CPU. Unlike ZIF socket
where the Heatsink is clipped on top of the CPU

Check out a few sites like this

http://www.starmicro.net

You can also run a search on www.pricewatch.com and come up with mor
resources