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[ola]

I have to get a new computer as my old employer wants my present back when I quit so I have the chance of building a new one from scratch. I have most of it figured out but I have a few questions about mobo and processors. I will be running n-Track on NT4.0 workstation for recording and W2k pro for other stuff (and for recording when drivers are available).

I was thinking of getting a dual processor mobo and need some advice.

The Abit BP6 seems perfect for DAWs with its built in support for 8 IDE devices (four 33 and four 66) and 5 PCI slots but it's limited to 370 socket CPUs. So would two low-end Celerons (500MHz or so PPGA), not even necessarily overclocked, cause any problems that I wouldn't have with a dual PIII slot1 mobo?

I'm not really looking for the price cut with Celerons but rather the other benefits of this mobo. All dual Slot1 mobos (that I can find) either have few PCI slots, built in SCSI (expensive) or build in audio/video crap.

Any thoughts?

/Ola

 

[camn]

Im running a single Celeron and it rules. its *only* a 366, too. By rules I mean I consistently deal with 20-track projects.. I record 10 tracks at once and rarely have problems. and overclocking celerons is very stable if you do it right.

xoxox

 

[ola]

BTW Does the BP6 accept FCPGA Socket 370 processors or only PPGA Socket 370?

<update> On second thought, FCPGA Celerons wouldn't work anyway way would they? Aren't FCPGA Celerons Celeron II, which have SMP (dual processor support) disabled? SMP was supposed to be disabled on the original Celerons as well but Intel never botherd to fix it other than in the specs so it worked anyway. With the Celeron II, they apparently have disabled SMP but are all FCPGA Celerons Celeron II?

[This message has been edited by ola (edited 05-18-2000).]