Overdrives - question

[thomsonicus]

hi
recently i've stumbled upon a site that mentioned a Pentium II Overdrive processor. I must say I've never seen one, even on pictures. Guess they weren't much popular; and here the question arises - previous overdrives proved to be quite successful, but why not the Pentium II Overdrive?

[Mixeur]

Pentium II Overdrive was for Pentium Pro based systems. So you understand why it was not so popular. Because pentium pro was dedicated (or almost) to workstations or servers.
Photo here : http://www.x86-guide.com/fr/histoire/Intel-Pentium-Pro-article54-2.html

[thomsonicus]

hmm, was it possible to upgrade more than 2-processor systems using the PIIOver? I mean, could systems with more than 2 PPro processors be upgraded?
thanks for the photo i'm googling this up right now.
I found it was possible to upgrade a 2 processor system, but what about 4-, 8-, or more processors?

[Mixeur]

Pentium II Overdrive is just a Pentium II with Pentium Pro interface. And unlike Pentium Pro, Pentium II have no ability to work on 4 or 8-cpus configurations. Only 2 max.

[D.8080]

I have a dual P2OD motherboard with two of them on.

Fun to play with that stuff...

[swaaye]

It's more like a Xeon on a chip than a P2. It has a 250nm P2/Xeon core and 512k full-speed L2 cache. It's the only way for a Socket 8 to have MMX, too, which is quite useful in some games and a few apps.