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?
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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.
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If you really want to get informed on dualies, i suggest you read through these forums:
http://forums.2cpu.com/
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but they are very good focused dualie forums and you can learn a lot just be reading stuff there.
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.<font size="1">AMD Athlon 64 3000+ w/ stock cooler, 1GB PC3200, Asus K8N, Built by ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, two 45GB IBM 7200rpm IDE drives, 16X DVD-ROM, Pioneer DVD-RW +/i, Creative Soundblaster LIVE 5.1, Antec Sonata w/ 380W Antec psu. </font>
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
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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.
A dual 1.26Ghz PIII Tualatin might be 30-60% faster than a single 1.26Ghz PIII Tualatin for applications that support multiprocessors.
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+?
5000mgz of duallie cruching goodnes= Droooool what would that be pr rated? 7600+?
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