Dual Processor Support
As a budget processor, the Celeron does not support a dual processor configuration using multiple CPU sockets, however Tomohiro Kawada, a Japanese hacker, discovered that multiprocessing could be enabled on Slot 1 Celeron processors by shorting a pin on the slot connector and other on the CPU core. In addition, Mendocino Socket 370 processors also unofficially supported dual-processor mode, which could be exploited by using the Abit BP6 motherboard or a Slot 1 adapter with a dual-socket 440LX or 440BX chipset motherboard. The unofficial SMP support was removed in the Coppermine Celerons, and dual-socket support is now limited to higher-end Xeon server-class processors. Conroe/Allendale based Celeron processors and later support multiprocessing using multi-core chips, but are still limited to one socket.
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