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McKing writes "Cpu Review has a petition online to let Intel know that technical users do not want the SMP ability of the Celeron CPU's to be disabled. Several sites have stated that Intel will disable the AN15 pin on Socket 370 motherboards to discourage Socket 370 SMP systems. "

McKing writes "Cpu Review has a petition online to let Intel know that technical users do not want the SMP ability of the Celeron CPU's to be disabled. Several sites have stated that Intel will disable the AN15 pin on Socket 370 motherboards to discourage Socket 370 SMP systems. "

Since the NDA was lifted early this morning, several sites have released reviews of AMD's new Athlon chip (coming in 500, 550, 600, and 650MHz versions). The first was Bill Henning's CPUReview site. He reviewed the Athlon 600 and has several nice things to say about it. Next up is The Upgrade Center's review, and two more submitted by kimmo, the first at Ace's Hardware, and the second at AGN Hardware. Next, Magnetism submitted a link to Tom's review. Finally, as submitted by pmmay, the ZDNet review. To finish, an article at the SJ Mercury that discusses AMD's strategy for the chip market (thanks to Greg Miller for that one). Update: 08/09 12:31 by J : Thanks to The Evil Dwarf from Hell for links to the AMD Benchmark Page, which even has SPECint and SPECfp scores, and to an anonymous reader for the Ars Technica review.

Bill Henning writes "For those of you interested, HotRail has announced an 8 way SMP chipset for the K7 using crossbar switching to improve SMP performance; Read more in this article " So much speed, so many RC5 keys to crack.

Bill Henning writes "For those of you interested, HotRail has announced an 8 way SMP chipset for the K7 using crossbar switching to improve SMP performance; Read more in this article " So much speed, so many RC5 keys to crack.

d^2b writes "There is an article using dual Celerons under Linux on cpureview.com. This is even more attractive now that you can buy an Abit BP6 for $130 and plug two socket 370 Celerons into it directly. The good news is that that author gets 183% speedup over a single processor compiling the kernel. "

fusion94 writes "CPU Review evaluates Redhat 6.0 and gives it an overall grade of "A". The full article can be found at CPU Review. " Check it out, if you like that sort of thing.