Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

martin hudec corwin at aeternal.net
Wed Oct 19 15:15:29 PDT 2005


Hello,

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:44:46PM -0500 or thereabouts, Doug Poland wrote:
> I've inherited an SMP machine for which I've no documentation and don't
> have convenient access to the hardware itself.  The computer has a
> single Xeon 2.8GHz CPU and I'd like to purchase another CPU.  Question
> is, can I simply match another Xeon of the same speed and expect it to
> work?  If I need more info, will dmesg(8) tell me what I need to know?

  well best for you will be to find information about your current CPU
  which is in place, by using sysutils/dmidecode port which will tell
  you what kind of CPU (frequency, L2 cache etc.) you have.

	have a nice day,
	Martin

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