Re: Possibly OT: Memory/CPU boards

From: Neil Hunt (neil.hunt@fujitsu.com.au)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 20:39:25 EDT


My thanks to all that replied.
These were:
Graham Wood
Jay Lessert
Espen Skog
Johan Hartzenbe
Hichael Horton
Scott Howard
Kevin Buterbaug
Tony Walsh
Darren Dunham
Mike Siedelberg
Wade Stuart
dana@dtn.com

The general concensus was that a) is not really practical, the system
will run at the speed of the slower boards.
and b) will work, but make sure I follow Sun's advice on layout.

My thanks to the massive lack of heat that came my way... ;)

Neil

ORIGINAL

> This may come across as a really stupid question, but I honestly cannot
> find an answer anywhere, so bear with me.
> I'm about to order a bunch of new CPUs and memory for the E4k
> downstairs, and was wondering a cpl of things.
> a) Can you mix CPU modules on separate boards? ie - Can I have one board
> with two 366Mhz processors and another board with two 187Mhz processors?
> b) can I install memory on a board without a CPU on it?
>
> Flame proof suit is on, so fire away.
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
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