On Tuesday 09 January 2001 15:35, you wrote:
> I was thinkg about building a dual processor PC using mandrake 7.2 as this
> should not be a problem ...however i read somewhere that even though the
> operating system might be Ok with dual processors some of the software that
> runs on it might not. Is this the case or not ??? as there would be no
> point in going down this road if i need to worry about every new piece of
> software i got..
> David
Most software will work fine in an SMP environment. However, most software
won't run faster because theres a second processor in the machine. The
software has to be capable of spawning multiple threads in order to see any
speed increase..
I know that Quake III ( and just about any game using the Q3 engine ) will
support SMP, and you will see a definite improvement in speed.
Darin -
