Other than Bragging rights, is there a reason for MP dual chip mobo's at home??

[krazykilroy]

I mean what reasons wuold you need a tiger MP with dual 1.9 Athlon MP chips at home for???

I only need one excuse, and it's a done deal. I'm a jack of all trades, master of none.

I play UO, Counter-strike, and am about to get motor city online. I use my scanner a lot, use office, among other things.

I wanted to go to win XP to maximize Ram capacity, and start a counter-strike server, but am not sure.

So why would anyone use a dual chip multi-platform mobo for home use????

 

[RedShirt]

Encoding DVD rips, Photoshop......

 

[krazykilroy]

really? What else do you use it for..................??

 

[FlippyBoy]

well, for one thing, dualie systems tend to be much snappier and responsive. i notice that web pages load smoother, and apps just respond quicker. beyond that, unless you use many multi-threaded apps, or have many, many things running at once, you wont see too much difference.

 

[PliotronX]

For running single programs at a time, it isn't worth the extra cost IMO (unless the program is heavily SMP optimized). For heavy multitasking, however, it will be leaps and bounds better. You can say encode a DivX while doing other stuff like burning a CD or surfing. Whether this kind of ability is worth it, is up to you.

 

[Odoacer]

The only time when I see a noticeable increase in Photoshop performance is when im working with big documents (more than 10 inches big). And this is with a K6-2 500.

3D rendering and multimedia encoding is where the money's at. And most games (q3a and RTCW are the most notable exceptions) dont have SMP support.

 

[Poontos]

No.

In some cases the MP setup is quite a bit slower than a single CPU system, even in a MP compatible OS.

 

[thomsbrain]

Fair Use, which IMO is the best DivX program, is multi-treaded, and so is Photoshop. Between those two programs, that's most of my CPU cycles, right there. So a dualie would be great for me. But it sounds like from what you do, it would not benefit you at all. In fact, you don't even need one XP 1900+. You'd be fine on a 1 GHz machine.