Installing 2nd CPU on SMP board

Glenn Dawson glenn at antimatter.net
Wed Oct 19 15:45:16 PDT 2005


At 01:44 PM 10/19/2005, Doug Poland wrote:
>Hello,
>
>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?

You definitely need to match the speed of the existing 
processor.  It's also a very good idea to match Intel's sSpec number.

Intel's processor spec finder has more info on the sSpec numbers:
http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/default.asp

-Glenn


>Sorry if this is too off-topic for -questions.  Please point me at the
>appropriate list if necessary.
>
>--
>Regards,
>Doug
>_______________________________________________
>freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"



More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list