RE: [expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of ibi > Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 1999 2:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah > > > This site has good information about dual processors, overclocking, etc > on a variety of boards. I'm partial to ASUS/Intel myself. > > http://bxboards.com/power2u.shtml > > Pj > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm very partial to Asus. We have Asus P2B-D at our labs at our physics department running duel PIII-500's now for like 2 months now at 100% CPU Uage and its still cloking around okay. [Occationall it drops to like 2 to 3% then we load another calculation then it goes up to 100% for a month or so]
Re: [expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah
- Original Message - From: Orlando Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 9:51 PM Subject: [expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah > I am considering building a dual Pentium 2 or Celeron system. I have been > told that NT only benefits from the dual processors using specific software > applications such as Adobe. And that it generally cruises along on one CPU. > Is this true and if it is does the same logic apply for Linux. The system > will be a dual boot workstation. What are the pros and cons on both OS's > and what are the recommended CPU and board combos? > > Thats sort of half-right.. NT and Linux can benefit from dual CPUs. The NT and Linux kernels manage which app uses which CPU. A particular program can switch from one CPU to another several times a second. So, the statement that NT uses only 1 CPU is really not true. The catch is that typically, most programs wont run any faster than they do on a single CPU system. This is because most programs are single-threaded. If a program were multi-threaded, it would be able to have threads go to different CPUs and thus use more CPU time. Adobe Photoshop is multi-threaded, so image manipulation will work more quickly in NT on a dual system than a single system.. Quake III Arena also supports SMP, so it you have a dual system, you should see higher framerates with a dual system.
Re: [expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah
---Reply to mail from Orlando Lewis about [expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah > I am considering building a dual Pentium 2 or Celeron system. I have been > told that NT only benefits from the dual processors using specific software > applications such as Adobe. And that it generally cruises along on one CPU. > Is this true and if it is does the same logic apply for Linux. The system > will be a dual boot workstation. What are the pros and cons on both OS's > and what are the recommended CPU and board combos? > ---End reply Linux benefits fairly well of multi CPU (SMP) also. It takes advantage of all multi-threaded applications (most of the "big" applications are multi-threaded). For instance, I use a bi-PPro 200 with 80MB RAM. Jean-Charles mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- I've known him as a man, as an adolescent and as a child -- sometimes on the same day.
Re: [expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah
This site has good information about dual processors, overclocking, etc on a variety of boards. I'm partial to ASUS/Intel myself. http://bxboards.com/power2u.shtml Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[expert] Dual Processors Systems yeah or nah
I am considering building a dual Pentium 2 or Celeron system. I have been told that NT only benefits from the dual processors using specific software applications such as Adobe. And that it generally cruises along on one CPU. Is this true and if it is does the same logic apply for Linux. The system will be a dual boot workstation. What are the pros and cons on both OS's and what are the recommended CPU and board combos?
