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DeadAnztac 
I am almost one of Us.
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Posted on: Feb. 22 2001,01:54 |
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Yep, that'll be mine soon I think damien  I've been watching the DDR and SMP pretty closely for the past year, and my interests are starting to mount 
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jim
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Posted on: Feb. 22 2001,11:52 |
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I run dual @ home. I started with 1 PIII 866EB @ 1001 MHZ 6.5x154FSB running Win2k. By adding a second processor I noticed a rather large performance boost. What happens, as I think Sithee was saying, is that although the game won't utilize the second proc, the OS will! So you do have more proc power available for other application. Maybe this won't increase game performance much, but what you can do, is multy task like a mother fucker!!!For instance, I see no difference in performance if I start up UT with no applications running, or if I leave IIS5/SQL2000/DHCP/DNS services running. The OS has the ability to off load those tasks to the second proc while the first proc is busy cranking out UT frames. It's great!!! I don't worry about shutting down Virus Scan, Outlook, ICQ, or any other non-gaming task bar items before jumping into a game. I still get 60fps with all details turned all the way up! Dual procs is WELL worth the money!! ------------------
jim
Beauty is in the eye of the Beer Holder
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Sithiee
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Posted on: Feb. 22 2001,21:28 |
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wouldnt that be why servers contain so many processors? with so many things to process, 8 processors can process 8 things at once.
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demonk
The other white meat
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Posted on: Feb. 23 2001,19:39 |
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I'm currently running a dual Celeron setup(going to goto dual PIII sometime this summer hopefully), and I can tell you, dual procs are great! Just like jim said, you won't see big performance increase in something like a game or application, but you will see a performance increase in the amount of stuff you can run without hickups in the OS. I don't worry about having too many programs open anymore. I can burn a CD, surf the web, use ICQ, AND use Photoshop at the same time, without any performance hits to any of them. Keep in mind though, your memmory will be what limits you in the number of stuff you can run when you get to dual procs. I've been bitten by the SMP bug, and I don't think I'll ever go back to a single CPU system.
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jim
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Posted on: Feb. 25 2001,10:27 |
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tee hee... You guys would love to play with my Server up here at work.Titanic boats 8, yes 8 PIII 800MHZ XEONS With 4 Gigs of RAM. Mmmmmmmmmm, SMP goodness. Here's the fun part though. Guess what all this proc power is used for?? ???? Not a god damn thing. It's our test box!!!!! It doesn't run any production applications!!! We have some even yummier toys down in the basement datacenter!! Mostly Compaq DL360's but those are cool! All our racks servers are hooked up to sweet ass pullout flatscreen monitors!! There are rumors of 2 ML770's down in the basement running a SQL 2000 Cluster, although no-one has even seen them!?!?! For those of you who don't know what an ML770 is, it runs 32 procs and 16 gig of ram.... Mmmmmmmmm I just want to touch one!!! ------------------
jim
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