Re: ASUS Dual Pentium w/Neptune chipset?

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems

Article #96

Back to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems Previous Next

#96

From: Asaf Kashi
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 16:13

25 lines
2003 bytes

getchel@pcnet.com writes:


>In article <3jl302$mq@agate.berkeley.edu>, <gilno@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> 
>writes:
>> Also, how would a dual P75 compare to a single chip - would it be about
>> twice as fast?

>That depends upon the type of OS you are operating. If you are using 
>DOS/Windows there will be *no* performance difference *whatsoever*! You must 
>use a SMP compliant OS such as Windows NT or Unix. If you *are* using one of 
>these OS's then you will see a 150-170% increase in CPU related processing. 
>Perhaps more if each CPU is provided with an independent L2 cache.

I plan on running NT with a dual P90 motherboard.  Are there any out
there with two independent L2 caches????  or a mb with the option to
put an L2 cache in?? (ie: it's there but not populated and the jumper
isn't set)

Thanks,
Asaf
--
Asaf Kashi						  kashi@uiuc.edu
Senior System Administrator - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute
http://www.cogsci.uiuc.edu/~kashi		*Finger me for PGP key!*

Technical Details

Message-ID: <kashi.794765618@grimm>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!grimm!kashi

References: <3jl302$mq@agate.berkeley.edu> <3jlq2e$3du@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f8e37,3271f6f23e596abc
X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public
X-Google-Thread: 11196f,3271f6f23e596abc
X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public
X-Google-Thread: 10483c,3271f6f23e596abc
X-Google-Attributes: gid10483c,public
X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,3271f6f23e596abc
X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-10 08:23:46 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!grimm!kashi
From: kashi@uiuc.edu (Asaf Kashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,biz.comp.hardware,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: ASUS Dual Pentium w/Neptune chipset?
Date: 9 Mar 95 16:13:38 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Lines: 25
Message-ID: <kashi.794765618@grimm>
References: <3jl302$mq@agate.berkeley.edu> <3jlq2e$3du@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
Reply-To: kashi@uiuc.edu (Asaf Kashi)
NNTP-Posting-Host: grimm.cogsci.uiuc.edu

Reply to Parent Message