Dual Celerons v. Single P III

[Tobywankenobe]

Greetings:

I am building a Win2000 system to edit video and create Motion Graphics (ie. Adobe After Effects). The new Celerons have a 100MHz FSB, and you can purchase two of them for the same price as a single P III 700. Which would make the better image processing platform? The same question applies to two Duron 700s v. a single Athlon 700. If dual cheaper processors would indeed be better, which would be the better choice--Celeron or Duron?

 

[jsbush]

Wait wait wait, the 800 celeron is the same price as the 800 pentuim 3. Or at least it was a few days ago.

 

[GFORCE100]

1.) Celeron II is not SMP able
2.) Duron is not SMP able either
3.) Duron has no SMP motherboard eve if it was
4.) You can get Pentium III 800's now for much less

 

[qiu]

for stuff like that it would be best to buy a KT7A mobo (should arrive soon) & a 1Ghz or more Thunderbird (Athlon) & overclock the hell out of it ;-) (@ least FSB should go to 140-150 (effective 280-300Mhz) & that helps a lot with heavy memory transfers.

PIII sucks

 

[MGMorden]

I had heard that the Duron is SMP capable will work with the 760MP chipset in SMP mode when it becomes available. Is this incorrect?

 

[Fardringle]

The Duron and Athlon are both capable of supporting SMP, but there are no motherboards currently available for a dual (or more) setup. Once these boards come out, there are going to be some serious (read insane 🙂) systems out there!! 😀

 

[evanichka]

the 760MP chipset is slated for q3 this year, so i am guessing late q4 or early q1 will bring us good nice dual amd boards