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Dual Duron rig- viable option, sometime?

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abracadabra1

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i have 2 durons that do 1ghz (they both have blue cores btw). i have 2 globalwin fop-32-1 for the cpus as well. when and if an amd dual duron w/ ddr sdram support mainboard chipset is released would it be a viable option for me?
i know win me doesn't support 2 processors, so my only choice is win2k, right?
linux might be a possibility as well, but i don't think i would make such a drastic change. is using win2k w/ dual processors for gaming better than using winme w/ just 1 processor for gaming?
would i get a significant increase in performance?
any ideas/thought/help is appreciated.

thx in advance.
 
right now you won't see that big of an increase in gaming b/c games don't use dual processors.....i'm going to build a server but i'm waiting for amd760mp so i can use durons b/c i can't afford and don't care for intel. dual durons would make a great cost efective server....
 
It depends on whether the game supports Dual CPUs. But i bet more games will come out soon that'll do that.
 
yah i know i would have to use nt.
but would the performance increase w/ 2 cpus be worth it since i'm using the 'lower performing' gaming platform.
thx
 
Well, gaming performance is not likely to increase with SMP. Quake (the only game right now that supports SMP) didn't see that much improvement IMO, but I didn't exactly benchmarked it, so I can't tell you the exact gain is, there are probably some benchmark floating around.

If you want to go SMP just for gaming, my suggestion is get the most powerful single CPU solution you can afford. SMP is good when you run bunch of stuff as the same time. I do burn CD, watch TV (with pinnacle TV card), surf web, do work with word/excel, MP3 extraction, Divx....and very often 3 to 4 task at the same time, so SMP is just much better for me.

So really depends on how you gonna use your system, IMO gaming is not likely going take advantage of SMP soon, or the performance gain will not be enough to justify going SMP by itself.
 
I tend to agree with jinsonxu. When AMD have a dual board and more people can afford a dual setup, then we might start getting games to use them. Seeing that both 95 and 98 (the main gammers platforms) dont support multiple processors, there has been little reason to invest the effort in the past. If W2K catches on in a big way as a gamers platform, and a dual setup is affordable, I'm sure the games will follow soon.

Can you imagine two Durons 600 oc to 1G, and a dual mobo for under $300. To get the same performance with Intel you'd have to pay double that. Add 256M of DDR, and you'd be able to do that for $400 and change. Intel, I'd guess a little over $1,000. What can we get for the $600 difference these days, a 21" monitor, vacation to Florida, hmmm...

Moohoo
 
As seewhy noted, Quake3 is the only SMP capable game right now.
But in quake3 the graphics engine in single threaded, so SMP won't imporve performance that much. Sound and network and score keeping and that kind of junk can all go to the 2nd CPU, but the GFX is far bigger than all that put together and it takes only one CPU.

However if you have like an Mp3 player running while you play you don't have to waste CPU cycles for it (it woudl go on the other CPU), so depending on how much extra you run while you play you might see some improvement.

Personally if I had Dual Durons capable of 1Ghz with a pair of GW coolers, I'd do the Dual Duron Rig with AMD760MP 😉
 
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