Dual Processor maybe?

[blclay23]

Prices have gone down.........I have PIII 700 (slot 1) was paid around $400, anyways, I'm thinkin of getting a new dual motherboard & another same processor.........what's the advantage? I already 256RAM & W2K, will I have better performance in everything? I do a lot of photo editing, & music editing, and of course games......

thanks

Mike

 

[IvoryGrail]

You can multitask alot better since win2k will split the load to both cpus when you are running many programs at once. You'll see an increase in photoshop(I assume you use that) itself too but I don't know if any music apps are multi-threaded. Games you will see no increase in speed....exception QIII.

 

[squirrel dog]

If you do this,you may have to reload win2k for smp.It will be faster than a single 700,but not twice as fast.More like an 850-933.

 

[FaultCode]

I agree with squirrel dog, I have dual P3 733's and they seem to perform like a single 850. However, the system runs smooth as glass. I can burn a cdr, compress an mp3 and play Q3 without a slowdown. The multitasking abilities are outstanding. If you can afford it I recomend it. Plus you can say that you have a DUAL proccesor system.

 

[Ulysses]

See the notes on dual processors under "Compatibility" here:

http://support.intel.com/support/processors/pentiumiii/

 

[Vegito]

Be sure to check your Stepping and SL code, you probably need something close to it.

 

[NFS4]

Yep, I plan on going the dual route with dual Durons, AMD760, 256MB DDR SDRAM and Windows 2000/Whistler.

It should be totally kickass

 

[Warrenton]

I would think that since the Duron it meant to compete with the Celeron, that AMD would have disabled SMP in the Duron and left if only for the T-Bird.

 

[NFS4]

AMD isn't as messed up as Intel these days Afterall, they did leave clock multiplier adjustments open to us for all their Slot-A/Socket-A processors up until now