Athlon XP-M as Athlon MP?

Seli

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According to Wikipedia the Athlon XP-M (mobile) hasn't been disabled for MP(multiprosessor) use, but is this a certain fact that's for all models?

I couldn't find a sure reference about this anywhere, I know initial XP and Duron models weren't locked out from MP as well, so that's why I'm asking.
 

mavroxur

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Silly Dogman, he's talking about Athlon XP-M's and Athlon MP's, what in the world are you talking about....extra cores? All CPU's were single-core back in those days. More of your shot-gun "must answer every thread on THG" :)





And you're correct, the XP-M series wasn't SMP-disabled. Assuming the board will run the specific CPU you're going to use, it wouldn't be a problem to run them in SMP mode. AMD didn't block it in those processors. Now, of course, some SMP boards won't run XP-M's, but you would have to do your homework on that.
 

endyen

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Too true mav, though if the board wont run the chip it may be that it is not recognized, can be made to work with a simple bios flash (well on some of those boards, the bios had to be flashed using a floppy, so not so simple as by today's standards)