need a dual motherboard for AMD MP which one to get?

[eshtog]

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

Right now your only choices are the Tyan K7 Thunder and the Tyan Tiger. Both are excellent "server" boards. In another month or so we should see a slew of dual capable boards from Gigabyte, Iwill, and others. I'd be tempted myself if I ran any apps that could benefit from dual CPU's. Good luck!

 

[eshtog]

so youre saying there is no benefit at all running dual processors?

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

Not at all. I just wouldn't see the benefit as much as say...a person who is doing digital rendering or running an SQL database etc. It does help with multitasking, but my Athlon 1Ghz + does just fine with 10 explorer windows, Word, Excel etc opened already.

 

[eshtog]

I want to build a pwer pc thats why I wanna go dual if you had money would you?

 

[Remedy]

He isn't saying that. He is saying if he(or the actual ppl in this forum who jumped on the dual bandwagon) actually had any multithreaded apps, then there would be a benefit. But the majority of the ppl who have jumped on it just did it cause its a Fad. They have no Multithreaded apps ( and don't even tell me q3 or photoshop is multithreaded cause q3 is poorly done with multiple threads and Photoshop is only beneficial with filters and images surpassing 30 megs and up) they think cause you burn a CD while playing counter strike is a way of "flooding both cpu's utilization" or something. Most of em never had dual systems for "multithreaded app work".

And yes your only choices for MP boards are what he listed above. You can forget Abit as an overclocking solution cause from what i was just told(leaked) that it won't feature any overclocking options and it is still alleged to be WTX form factor for server use. Ya like Abit and server solution rhyme in the same sentence.

 

[eshtog]

yeah I dont do much graphic editing so I guess dual isnt for me