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In comp.os.linux.hardware George Bell <MasterofTimeADim@netscape.net>
wrote:
> 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.

I also have all dual-SMP machines.  That's because I know what I'm
doing.  If OP has to ask in Usenet group, then my advice is go with
single-CPU.  It's cheaper, and he won't notice the difference.  Spend
the money on quality case, power supply, quality memory, one IDE
harddisk (Seagate/IBM) per cable, or SCSI, ...

-- 
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
Linux solution for data management and processing.