Re: amd nvidia and mem=nopentium

[Shane Nay <shane@minirl.com>]

> I'd go Athlon
>
> >  Do you have pointers  showing stability problems when using
> > XP processor in a multiprocessor context ?
>
> Remember the XP's haven't been tested in MP configurations (or
> tested and failed). The same was true of celerons and as most
> people found the fail rate was pretty low 8)

You have to bridge L5-4 on the newest XP CPUs though.  My Tyan Tiger 
boards' BIOS was giving me something like-
00Error
  Failed

Turned out it needed those guys bridged up.  It's not that difficult 
though, I had a circuit pen lying about and just drew in a trace :).  
(You don't have to fill the cracks like the overclock bridges)

Anyway, it was pretty easy, but I wouldn't suggest it for the faint 
of heart.  Running 2.4.18 happily now in dual config with no 
stability problems.  I have compiled the kernel a few times, compiled 
Qt, all of KDE, xemacs, glibc, gcc, and a couple billion other things 
that I can't remember right now.  So, no stability problems with the 
newest XPs and a hand closed L5-4 bridge.  (So far anyway :) )

Thanks,
Shane Nay.