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DUAL CPU MOTHERBOARDS REVIEW

Low cost dual CPU computer is coming to your home?

by Derek Kwan

The motherboard is most likely one of the most important building blocks of your computer. It is the backbone that holds everything in the system together. A well-designed motherboard will allow you to have better performance as well as possible future upgrade-ability. (That is if Intel stops introducing new CPU packages every so often...)

There are many choices for single CPU motherboards in the market, but there are only a handful of motherboards that can support multi-processors. Almost every motherboard manufacturer has twenty or more different models of motherboards but maybe only a few of them are capable for multi-processors.

We have spend lot of time and efford to get together five of the most common multi-processor motherboards on the market for testing. We would like to thank everyone that assisted us and gave us this opportunity to compare various motherboards. One of the highlights in this product review is we have received ABIT's BP6 motherbaord which is the FIRST and ONLY DUAL Socket 370 motherboard that is targeted for low cost but yet powerful computing power. As you might guessed, yes, our product testing is going a bit "out of the Intel specs"; we will be testing DUAL CELERON PROCESSORS configuration in those motherboards which are orginally designed for DUAL Pentium II / Petium III processors only. (At first, we were planning to have the title as Dual Slot 1 Motherboards review. But because of ABIT's BP6, we now have to change the title to Dual CPU Motherboards review.)

Anyways, I am glad you have read this far (I hope you did).

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