dual procesors

pickleton

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how does this work? could someone explain this to me? how do you manage this? which CPU manages what, and where can you buy a motherboard like this? Are there specail processors for this?
 

mechBgon

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The operating system can use either processor for whatever it wants to. You can buy dualie boards from many motherboard companies, Tyan and Supermicro being a couple that focus on dualies in particular (or quad, mmm! :)). Generally the boards use a particular type of memory modules and power supplies, and are bigger than many popular cases will accomodate. They may have multiple high-speed PCI-X buses and fancy onboard stuff like Ultra320 SCSI and one or more gigabit network controllers.

For a home user, dualies are good if you have multiple hard-hitting tasks that you want to run simultaneously, such as a video-conversion process running in the background while you're playing Doom3 maybe. Of course, a guy could just build two completely separate computers too... :confused: but whatever.

If you want to scope out some dualie boards, here ya go :)