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dually questions
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 2:51 pm
by two slow
What are the advantages of having a dual CPU system?
Are there any disadvantages?
Will it help with burning DVDs, or is that more the HD's?
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:27 pm
by Busby
Dual CPUs enable true multi-threading, i.e. One CPU handles one task while the other CPU handles another one or both does one. For DVD burning it wouldn't help because that is not CPU limited. Converting to DVD format however would benefit and would be faster. Also, programs have to be coded to support SMP. Photoshop and Premeire do, along with most/some professional applications. Most games do NOT support it though. Quake 3 does but tests have shown it's very bad implementation and usually it's not CPU bottlenecks.
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:15 pm
by DoPeY5007
and it is good bragging rights
you could run f@h twice on it
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 7:56 pm
by matt719
If you really want to get informed on dualies, i suggest you read through these forums:
http://forums.2cpu.com/
Hope this isn't against any PCA rules or anything
but they are very good focused dualie forums and you can learn a lot just be reading stuff there.
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:00 pm
by BillyGoat
Nope for smp 2cpu is the place to go, alot of us have had duallie systems here. I used to use mine for video editing
Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:32 pm
by two slow
They help for video editing? I may just get one then. Hows a dual 1.26Ghz PIII Tualatin on an IWill DVD266u-RN stack up will it be better than a 2600+ and asus A7N8X deluxe?
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 7:17 am
by DocSilly
No, you won't see any speed increase with such a slow dually vs fast single CPU. It's the same like people buying 4 year old SCSI drives and expecting them to beat their latest IDE drive cause they're SCSI.
A dual 1.26Ghz PIII Tualatin might be 30-60% faster than a single 1.26Ghz PIII Tualatin for applications that support multiprocessors.
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 10:38 am
by BillyGoat
well said doc- if I was to build a duallie right now, I wood mod a couple mobile xp 2500's to mp and overclock them
5000mgz of duallie cruching goodnes= Droooool what would that be pr rated? 7600+?
Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:41 am
by DaMaN
Originally posted by BillyGoat
well said doc- if I was to build a duallie right now, I wood mod a couple mobile xp 2500's to mp and overclock them
5000mgz of duallie cruching goodnes= Droooool what would that be pr rated? 7600+?
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