Are dual proc boards any good for home use? Or just servers.

[Fireman]

I was thinking of building a machine around an older dual slot 1 board I have. I can get a couple of PII 400's fairly cheap and wondered if it would be worth while.
It's actually a PC Chips board This one here.
It says it only goes to 333mhz but I should be able to flash the bios to get to 400.....right?

Would this be a decent machine to play some games on or would it suck?

Whadda ya tink peeps?

 

[CraigRT]

me thinks me is getting a dual rig next because when i am gaming, once CPU can be doing the game, and the other can be cracking SETI, all at the same time.

just make sure to get a bit more RAM in a dually if you plan on using some CPU intensive programs, cause you'd likely have to run the instance twice..

Dual processor machines are sweet... but in your case, a Dual PII 400 would be absolutely slammed by even a lets say Duron 800 and up.. so if that's all you have is some old PII's don't bother going dual.. my dually rig is gonna be like a Dual MP2000 or something, so that'd be worth it.. but not with those old CPU's unless you want the 'cool' factor of dual CPU.. which is good.... heh

 

[Fireman]

Cool. Thanks for the response. I just don't know doo doo about dual set ups and ran across this board and started thinking..........
You know how dangerous that can be heheh.

 

[Spikesoldier]

The reason why it only supports up to 333MHz is that it can only run a 66MHz bus. The P2 400 runs on a 100MHz bus. The chipset is factor, which is probably an LX chipset (66MHz bus only) and not a BX (66&100 MHz)