$110 And Up - Dual-CPU Boards At Cut-Rate Prices, Continued

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It's impossible to find cheaper alternatives these days, even considering that Intel is selling fewer and fewer Pentium III processors in the retail market. A few days ago, AMD launched its 760MP chipset, which, however, is set to reach an entirely different market segment. Despite the fact that the idea of using two or more processors simultaneously was developed for the server segment, chipset manufacturers have tried over and over again to offer special solutions for enthusiasts in the end-customer market. All six boards are based on the relatively out-dated VIA Apollo Pro133A.

Specifications of Chipsets with dual processor support
Manufacturer VIA AMD Intel
CPU-Platform Sockel 370 Sockel 462 Sockel 370
Supported CPUs Intel Pentium III AMD Athlon Intel Pentium III
Chipset Apollo Pro 133A 760 MP 815E
Chipset Northbridge VIA VT82C694XDP AMD 762 Intel 82815
Chipset Southbridge VIA VT82C686B AMD 766 Intel 82801BA
integrated Graphics no no yes
FSB Settings 66/100/133 MHz 100/133 MHz 66/100/133 MHz
Memory Settings 66/100/133 MHz 100/133 MHz 66/100/133 MHz
Asynchronous Memory Clock yes no yes
max. no. of Memory-Slots 4 4 3
max. Memory 1.5 GB 4 GB 512 MB
ECC-Support yes yes no
PC-100 SDRAM yes no yes
PC-133 SDRAM yes no yes
VCM-133 SDRAM yes no no
PC-266 DDR-SDRAM no yes no
PC-800 RDRAM no no no
PC-800 Dual-RDRAM no no no
U-DMA/66/100 yes/yes yes/yes yes/yes
USB-Connectors 4 4 4
IRQs for PCI 5 5 6
AGP 1x / 2x / 4x yes / yes / yes yes / yes / yes yes / yes / yes
ACPI-Features yes yes yes
Save to Disk (S1) yes yes yes
Save to RAM (S3) yes yes yes
Comparison of different chipsets and platforms aimed to operate with dual-CPU systems.

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