[luau] Re: dual pentium pro

[Dustin Cross]

Aloha,

I think you are correct.  When I bought my adapters they offered a PIII
version that came with the PL-PRO/II and a seperate smaller adapter that
fits in between the PIII and the PL-PRO/II.  The Neo S360 is so small I
forgot all about it.

Dusty



> Thank you,Dusty. But maybe you have used Powerleap's Neo S370 in
> conjunction with PL-PRO/II, since PIII 1.1Ghz's pin definition (as as
> well as the voltage?) is different from Celeron 533's.
> Ming Yu
>
>> Aloha,
>>
>> Yes,  just put faster PIII processors in the PL-PRO/II adapters.  The
>> PPro systems run at 66mhz.  What I did was convince Powerleap to sell
>> me PL- PRO/II adapters with no processors and then I bought 2x PIII
>> 1.1Ghz processors with 100Mhz bus.  The bus is the important part.
>> Basically you are under clocking the processor in the PPro system.
>> One of the PIIIs I got was 133Mhz bus (the retailer thought he was
>> doing me a favor) and that processor ran much slower (1.1Ghz @ 100Mhz
>> underclocked to 66Mhz = 726Mhz, 1.1Ghz at 133Mhz underclocked to 66Mhz =
>> 539Mhz).  So I traded in that processor for the 100Mhz and everything
>> worked fine.  My Tyan 1662 board booted right up and worked great with
>> Linux and Win2k .
>>
>>
>> Mahalo,
>> Dusty
>>
>>
>>> I had a dual pentium pro machine running Linux, and recently upgraded
>>> the machine to dual celeron 533MHz by using the socket converter
>>> PL-PRO/II manufactured by Powerleap. I read from your archives
>>> that someone can upgrade such machine to dual PIII 730MHz.
>>> Does anyone know how this could be done or give any hint?
>>> Ming Yu
>>>
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