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I tried to put TWO vintage Celerons in one PC

This Does Not Compute 267,823 lượt xem 1 month ago
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It was very easy to overclock early Celeron processors to perform better than Pentiums...but what about using more than one?

Sources:
Celeron 300A box photo: https://www.gdm.or.jp/crew/2015/1123/141643
"Overclocking: Intel Celeron 300A," Maximum PC, April 1999.
eMachines photo: https://wiki.preterhuman.net/File:533i1.jpg
Lian Li front panel clip model: https://www.printables.com/model/431534-lian-li-case-clip
Quake III multiprocessing thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=54929
"Multiprocessor scalability in Microsoft Windows NT/2000" whitepaper: https://demandtech.com/wp-content/uploads/resources/library/Multiprocessor_scalability.pdf
"Celeron CPU Caches Up, Adds Muscle to Basic PCs," PC Magazine, October 6, 1998.
"The Dual Celeron System" page: https://web.archive.org/web/20000306024509/http://kikumaru.w-w.ne.jp/pc/celeron/index_e.html
Celeron 300A voltage mod: https://web.archive.org/web/20001005131918/http://www.overclockers.com/tips23/index07.asp
"Overclocking Beyond the Speed of Commerce," Newsday, June 13, 1999.
Abit BP6 motherboard photo by Motherboard Continuum: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/abit-ab-bp6

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