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| 605558 | 2007-10-26 07:27:00 | was dual cpu used before the technology was available for dual core? or is it more like the idea behind SLI graphics cards to boost overall performance? | LOWTEC (7821) | ||
| 605559 | 2007-10-26 07:44:00 | was dual cpu used before the technology was available for dual core? or is it more like the idea behind SLI graphics cards to boost overall performance? I have seen a dual processor motherboard with 2 CPUs running O/S2. A long time ago now. Around the time of Windows 3.11 and MSDos 5 or 6. Just trying to think what year. Possibly 1992. I had a 486 at the time and got my first 1 Gig drive. I was tossing up about getting two 540 MB drives for backing up one drive to the other. And I had a whole 2 megs of RAM. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 605560 | 2007-10-26 07:57:00 | was dual cpu used before the technology was available for dual core? or is it more like the idea behind SLI graphics cards to boost overall performance? Uhhh... Seriously you never knew that 2, 4 or 8 physical CPU's are possible in a computer? I don't know what's the difference between SLI and Dual core/CPU in your mind but to me they are pretty much the same. Dual core is jamming (among other things) 2 CPU cores on 1 physical package, or you could have 2 CPU's in 2 physical packages stuck on one (big) motherboard. The reason they went the dual core way is probably because it would be smaller rather than it's really faster. |
gnail (6819) | ||
| 605561 | 2007-10-26 08:08:00 | Tyan motherboards were one of the early manufacturers of multiple processor motherboards. They had dual and quad boards running pentium pro cpu's and running windows for workgroups 3.1 and later NT, later Win 2000. Not necessarily double the speed for most stuff but cpu intensive stuff they excelled on, video work graphics etc. There has been a few dual processor boards come up over the past year on trademe. Most motherboard manufacturers make them now but they have dual or quad xeon cpu's in them. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 605562 | 2007-10-26 08:09:00 | dual cpu's dosn't make it twice as quick. you get a good speed increase PROVIDED the software is designed for it. a lot of apps are only made for single cpu as muiltable cpu support takes a few bit more programming. however they can be good at multi taking, ie one cpu works on one program while the other works on another program. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 605563 | 2007-10-26 08:36:00 | Uhhh... Seriously you never knew that 2, 4 or 8 physical CPU's are possible in a computer? I don't know what's the difference between SLI and Dual core/CPU in your mind but to me they are pretty much the same. Dual core is jamming (among other things) 2 CPU cores on 1 physical package, or you could have 2 CPU's in 2 physical packages stuck on one (big) motherboard. The reason they went the dual core way is probably because it would be smaller rather than it's really faster. sorry if my asking questions offended you, silly me I thought this was a help forum... |
LOWTEC (7821) | ||
| 605564 | 2007-10-26 10:02:00 | also note not all vesions of 2000/xp are dual processor. i think you have to have the pro version. might be easier to stick with linux ;) I believe Windows 2000 was only sold as professional, and it is essentially NT 5.0. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 605565 | 2007-10-26 21:48:00 | Tyan motherboards were one of the early manufacturers of multiple processor motherboards. They had dual and quad boards running pentium pro cpu's and running windows for workgroups 3.1 and later NT, later Win 2000. Not necessarily double the speed for most stuff but cpu intensive stuff they excelled on, video work graphics etc. There has been a few dual processor boards come up over the past year on trademe. Most motherboard manufacturers make them now but they have dual or quad xeon cpu's in them. Used a lot for servers as well |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 605566 | 2007-10-26 21:54:00 | XP Home also supports dual core or dual processors! | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 605567 | 2007-10-26 23:26:00 | Ah no it doesnt only Pro supports dual CPU. As stated here (www.microsoft.com) Down the bottom. However, both support HT CPU's. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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