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| 91756 | 2002-10-22 09:50:00 | I've thinking about getting my tech fix by upgrading my board to a dual processor machine. Does anyone have experience using a modern dual processor machine. I've had a look at using AthlonMP Chips, in a gigabyte board. How much improvement does a dual processor make on the performance of a machine, or is now going to be the other components which slow everything down? At the moment I would prefer to buy AMD and support the under-dog... It looks like it's going to cost 2 - 2 1/2 x that of a single cpu... thanks, Nic |
nicnz (2273) | ||
| 91757 | 2002-10-22 10:19:00 | Generally they're not worth it. Unless you're doing something which will utilize it. Also you need the correct OS to make it worth while and the correct software as well. Really no point unless for 3d rendering. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 91758 | 2002-10-22 10:48:00 | Pretty much a waste of time for the average home user. Your OS has to support dual CPU's and then the software you run has to as well. Very little software you would use at home would be able to utilise them. 3D rendering programs (3D Max etc), some high end sound creation programs and 2 games out of 5000 games. I have a couple of dual systems but apart from bragging rights its pretty much a waste of time although there are some nice little utilities you can use to get use of the second processor by programs that will only use 1 CPU (they move prcesses to whichever CPU you specify so you can say run a game process on CPU2 while windows stays on CPU 1). If you have software already ready to use dual CPUs though that you are using already then there would be a noticable speed increase in that program if you went to the dual setup. If you are a Quake3 addict then that is the one game that loves dual CPUs and you would get a great speed increase. Spend the extra money on going with a 2.8gig P4 backed up by a motherboard using Intels latest 533mhz chipset with DDR ram support and built in USB2 and AGP 8x then shove the latest greatest Geforce 4 in that sucker with 512mb ram and Win 2000 then tweak it to hell and drool at your wonderful new beast as it tromps all over an AMD. :D |
John Grieve (367) | ||
| 91759 | 2002-10-22 10:53:00 | dual cpu will not give u 2x speed unless the software is designed for dual cpu. also with dual cpus they tend to slow down when transfering over the agp bus. can be great if you use the likes of photoshop but for general use its not worth the $$$ |
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