[Gllug] Moving processor between boxes

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 11:39 +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Peter Childs wrote:
> > How true this actually is, It might be just a way to make money for intel.
> 
> It's moderately true.  The processors should be as near to identical as 
> possible, same model, same speed, same stepping etc.
> 
> That said you won't damage the processors, you'll just get a machine 
> that will either not boot at all, or be completely unstable if it does.
> 
> 
> 

As an aside, I have a Sun box where it is perfectly feasible to mix
processors of different speeds (but same basic design). Sadly it is only
about as fast as a P90 even with two 150 MHz processors fitted

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