AMD760MP - dual processor board -- question about switching

[Frosty3799]

I am thinking about going to the dual athlon processors, i was wondering thoughts on whether i should or not, if i am only going to do mostly gaming, maybe some cad and photoshop

 

[TunaBoo]

<< I am thinking about going to the dual athlon processors, i was wondering thoughts on whether i should or not, if i am only going to do mostly gaming, maybe some cad and photoshop >>



It will be a tad faster. Best thing Dual proc is good for is heavy multitasking. If you dont do that, you don't need it.

 

[Noriaki]

The only game that is currently SMP capable is Quake3, and even that has a single threaded graphics engine.

Just secondary stuff like sound and network control can get sent to the second CPU.

There is not much benefit to SMP in gaming.

 

[dowxp]

<< There is not much benefit to SMP in gaming. >>



true that. cs still goes at the same framerate, though i can run just about anything in the background however.. =) goodluck on your athlons!

 

[Frosty3799]

so, overall, i would probably be better off getting single processor?

 

[TunaBoo]

<< so, overall, i would probably be better off getting single processor? >>



For gaming yes.

 

[dowxp]

get scsi -- that will not speed up games, but hey, its speeds up everything! its funny how you get into coutnerstrike map changes in before everyone else does and u reach their spawn before they even load the map. =)

haha. always funny. &quot;freaking stupid scsi!&quot; -- killed friend.

 

[andalas]

SMP for gaming is pretty much useless
You won't gain a lot of speed by using SMP.
I believe only Q3 that can use the added CPU.

On my SMP machine, I rarely see the 2nd CPU being use.
Most of the time it's just idle state, although the main one is use around 100%.

I have to assign the process manually to use the 2nd CPU and that still only 1 cpu running but the 2nd one.