Nothing fancy or new, but I just got an Abit BP6 and 2 Celeron 466's for SMP love. The original Celerons were basically Pentium II's with less cache and a 66MHz FSB. Everything else, including SMP capabilities, were intact. While most boards were rigged to only support Pentium SMP, someone figured out how to rig the Slot 1 Celerons for SMP operation. However, that involved heavy modification ---which included drilling the PCB ---to accomodate this mod. The Socket 370 (PPGA) were much easier. Abit came out with the BP6 which was setup to allow all PPGA Celerons to run in SMP on the motherboard natively. This board was the reason Intel made all Celerons from the 533A and up incapable of SMP operation from the start. I've got a ton of different Linux distro's to play with, so that's what I'm going to be using here once I get this thing assembled.:chk:
Yup. Back in the day, the Xeons offered a larger cache and more than 2-way SMP, but the PII's and Pentium III's could swing it too. That changed with the Pentium 4 and NetBurst. I'm going to bust out my KVM switch too. My room is tight on space, so having a third monitor in here would be insane.
