a couple of questions...the purpose of dual processors and....

[HBOC]

I am most likely going to attend Brooks Institute next year for graphic design and photography (especially) and i have heard that people have dual processors (G5) and was wondering what the benfits of that would be? I am buying a canon 20D in 2 weeks and i took my computer apart, as it was 5 years old I only need a couple of things to have buy to have a complete system, ie; another 200gig HD, dvd burner, case, monitor, sound/video card and motherboard,cpu, 2gig ram?...so more than a few...

i was wondering what would be the benefits of 2 AMD processors would be? I need a graphic design heavy system, lots or ram, processing power....

for the time being, i will be using a $1000 dell to store my RAW files until i complete the new system..i would like to build one in the next 5-7 weeks as i live in oregon where there is no sales tax and am moving back to huntington beach, which ca has nearly 8%...i am also going to take some programming classes at the local CC while i gain residency of CA once again before heading twords santa barbara....thanks and sorry for being so dumb about computers....

 

[imported_Mitchell]

2 processors gives the system the ability to share the load. So you can render an 3d image on 1 processor and compile on another (kinda). Stuff like that. More RAM gives the system the ability to swap to the HD's less often and speed up performance.

In an environment where a lot of swapping is taking place (SQL, Compiling, etc) SCSI would be a better storage system because it can handle multiple data inputs compaired to SATA, IDE which are 1 instruction in 1 out.