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KT266A Almost Same As Dual MP In Benches

Nice read. Unless new 760MPX boards increase perfromance dramatically, there's going to be no reason unless u actually use SMP apps, to go Duallies.
 


<< Nice read. Unless new 760MPX boards increase perfromance dramatically, there's going to be no reason unless u actually use SMP apps, to go Duallies. >>


Umm....Why would you go dual if you didn't use SMP apps? Granted, you'd have bragging rights but you'd be a moron to have duallies in a Win98 box running Minesweeper all the time.
 


<< Umm....Why would you go dual if you didn't use SMP apps? Granted, you'd have bragging rights but you'd be a moron to have duallies in a Win98 box running Freecell all the time. >>

Come on now.. let's keep the bad mouthing of Freecell to a minimum.

Freaking solitare zealots..

CH2
 
And it took some sort of a rocket scientist to realize:

"Duh, hey the same speed processor running in a single configuration produces the same results in a multi-processor system running the same uni-processor application?"

"Of course, applications that are built to take advantage of dual-processor capable machines showed an incredible performance advantage over running them in a single processor machine!!!"

<sarcasm>
WOW OMFG, I wonder why that is? No way!? Really? I'm amazed...how'd they do that???!!!!??!!1!!!1 You mean the new Kt266A chip-set is faster than the AMD760 chipset too?!?!!1!! Holy cow, what we learn each and every day.
</sarcasm>

TomK
 
I love people who run Win98/ME duallie boxes. They love to tell me how much "faster" their system feel. 🙂

Still, for those that do run SMP aware apps, the Athlon MPs whoop some serious ass in relation to the Xeons.

Windogg
 
The benefit of SMP isn't so much in the performance gained running a single app, but what activities you can do at the same time. With SMP you can play Quake 3 and have a CPU left over to crunch away on your SETI stats at the same time. Is that a productive use of SMP? No, but neither is surfing the internet and checking email on a Ghz system with 512MB of RAM. If we had what we actually needed, few of us would be past 6 or 700Mhz systems.
 
Bozo Galora wrote:

"these dual setups never seem to live up to expectations in the cold hard real world."

That's because people are stupid and think putting together a dual processor rig immediately doubles their performance. It just doesn't work that way. Add to that you've got people using software which doesn't support SMP, and they can't understand why their machine is "slower" than a faster-clocked CPU in a single processor board. As an owner and avid user of the Tyan duallies for the past several months, I can certify these boards are phenomenal. If you use the software which takes advantage of both CPUs and a good OS that does as well (2K/XP), you will be impressed.

KT266A "almost" same as Dual MP? Baloney. Tasking a single processor in a single processor test? Performance-wise, perhaps. But I'll take the AMD 762/766 combination over KT266A/8233 any day.
 
Most of my apps are not dual aware, but I like it that way. Why? Because I multitask like no one else I know, and I like my system to be smooth as ice. If something is hanging, waiting for the processor to be free, causing ME to wait for the processor to be free, that pisses me off. I don't mind if I'm encoding an MP3 and it takes longer than it would if I had a single higher MHz system because I can just minimize that task and move on to something else, and it won't affect my quality of computing experience.
 


<< I don't mind if I'm encoding an MP3 and it takes longer than it would if I had a single higher MHz system >>



The newest version of Eazy CD-DA supports duallies! Encode an entire CD in minutes with a fast cdrom
 
O.k. folks, lets make it simple...:

1) SMP hardware + SMP OS + SMP software = 100% SMP benefit

2) non-SMP hardware + SMP OS + SMP software = 0% SMP benefit

3) SMP hardware - SMP OS + SMP software = 0% SMP benefit

4) SMP hardware + SMP OS - SMP software = 10-20% SMP benefit (obviously the OS and application can run more efficiantly because the OS can split up work load between procs even if the non-SMP app may not 'see' the second proc even though the benches don't seem to show it 😕 )

How's that for simplification. We need to cut and paste my equations in the FAQ Andy 🙂
 
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