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Article #255Re: Dual processors ?
From: George Bell
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:04
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 01:04
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Dieu Phan wrote: > hi, > please give me a hint. > question: which dual processors's motherboard which can install 2 XP Athlon 1800+ > and it is compatible with rh80? its model & price as well? > --- > Dieu Phan_____________________________________________________ > Make your life as simple as "Moonlight Sonata" of L. Beethoven > You know, I considered a dual processor board at one point. My conclusion is that unless your running a busy webserver or something critical like this, its just not worth it. I think a better philosophy is to have one CPU, and choose peripheral devices of higher quality(graphics,ethernet,sound,etc.) - that can act as busmasters without CPU support. So then the processing gets distributed around the mobo. Also you'd probably see more performance increase from a IDE raid system than from dual processors, and IDE raid has really come down in price. Also, processing speed is so high now that advantage of dual is not as great.
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