Thinking about picking up a pair of Athlon MP CPUs and setting up a dual processor rig? Tuan from FiringSquad has written up a gargantuan roundup of the latest 760MPX board offerings from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and Tyan. It's everything you ever wanted to know about Athlon SMP...but were afraid to ask.
Flash back to the summer of 2001. The technology industry was rowdy, filled with excitement and anticipation. Rumors surrounded different companies with secret products that were unannounced and about the stakes that one company was about to take.
The company was AMD, and its product, the 760 MP chipset – known avidly to the world as the first dual processor chipset from AMD. After the uproar that AMD’s Athlon processor created, people were begging for a dual-processor chipset that was capable of supporting two Athlon processors. People knew at the time that the Athlon was the most powerful desktop processor (and perhaps it still is) and it would be even more powerful if there were more of them in one system.
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