Overclocking on a Duallie

[Pettytheft]

I'm planning on picking up this Mobo next week <A HREF="http://www.iwillusa.com/products/spec.asp?ModelName=DVD266-R&SupportID=" target="_new">http://www.iwillusa.com/products/spec.asp?ModelName=DVD266-R&SupportID=</A>.
I'll pick up a couple of 700E's and set the FSB to 133. Thing is that I've never overclocked on a Duallie system. Is this a big no-no?

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[Unolocogringo]

If that is the only overclocking that you will be doing then you should not have a problem. At 133 everything will still be in spec except the processors.

I aint signing nothing!!!

 

[Crashman]

Let us know how it goes. The worst problem for VIa chipsets has been IRQ sharing, but I believe going DUAL gives your 32 IRQ's, right?

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

 

[peach]

<font color=blue>Hmmm, 32 IRQs really? Another added benefit I have never heard before....

Yes - let us know how it goes Petty.

<i><font color=blue>on company time....</i>

 

[Crashman]

Someone who builds dually systems told me that each processor gets it's own set of interupts, I don't know for sure that it's true, but the guy usually doesn't lie.

Video killed my Radio Card!

 

[Mordy]

Irq's are inside PIC that is inside the chipset, not inside the CPU.

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-James Hetfield

 

[Crashman]

We know that IRQ's are assigned by the chipset, but they are assigned as task that are handled be the CPU. So a chipset could probably support twice as many IRQ's on a single processor system, but that would require the chipset to follow a different set of rules than the ones currently in use. A dual processor chipset can more easily set the two chips up as each handling half the task, including signals sent as interupt request, to each handle half of the task. Parrallel processing, working like two different systems. The first CPU can handle all the overhead, plus some programs, while the second can work on programs only, and each can prioritize half the interupt request on it's own, the first handling the information passed through IRQ's 1-16, the other 17-32. whether this is indeed done or not I do not know, but was simply told that dual processor systems can have twice as many IRQ's.

Video killed my Radio Card!