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Celeron Dual Board Adapter

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-the-hardware-hacker dept.

Stephan writes "MSI recently introduced an adapter for using two normal Celerons in dual PII boards without any tricks. You can even increase fsb speed!"

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  1. Looks like the way to go by Booker · · Score: 3

    This looks like a really nice way to go. I tried the drill/solder trick, and finally got it going, but it was really flaky, and kept crashing my box. Which was bad. It's really hard to solder the wires onto the fingers on the edge of the card, and then cram it into the slot without disconnecting and/or shorting the wire. I gave up for a while, then tried some resoldering, and fried one of the celerons. :-( Oh well, I knew what I was getting into, it was only about $60.

    This looks fool-proof, and the PPGA celerons are cheaper these days anyway. Guess I'll have to go blow another $160 or so. :-)

  2. Quad celeries or lack thereof. by Christopher+Thomas · · Score: 3
    But on this deal, why not 2 to a board, making a 4-way system? Can that be possible?


    Based other messages I've read here, I doubt that would work. The Celeron is essentially a PII, and that can only support dual processors due to a deliberate limitation imposed by Intel. For quad processors or better, you'd need Xeons.

  3. Great by zealot · · Score: 3

    I've been running dual ppga celeron 300a's overclocked to 450 for a couple of months now, and it works just great. Oldmanrant:But back in my day we had to solder to pins on the adapter to be able to dual them, and then cut 3 traces on the pcb with an exacto knife to increase the voltage from 2.0 to 2.2 volts (they wouldn't run stably at 450 at 2.0 volts). You youngins have it so easy.

    Seriously, the best part about the card is probably the ability to change the voltage, so newer celerons can easily be overclocked too.
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  4. Um...so does powerleap by Eric@MTU · · Score: 3

    Those have been available since the beginning of April...Powerleap has one too (http://www.powerleap.com) that allows manipulation of core voltage, and has built in protection for overheating.