Other than Bragging rights, is there a reason for MP dual chips 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????

 

[Raspewtin]

there are 1.9 Ghz chips already?

 

[teriba]

He means 1900+

 

[fergiboy]

Most of the applications that you mentioned will only run on one cpu. The only reason that you might want it is to have all of your backround applications run on one processor and everything else on another.

 

[DongTran]

there is a guy that has a dual xp1800 that comes to a lanparty that i host all the time. he runs HLDS on one cpu and counterstrike on the other.

it's fast and all the way he has it setup, but i actually have a seperate box for my serving, actually 4 of them. anyway it pretty much is all about not using your server as a workstation but instead leaving it be and letting it serve. you serve faster/smoother that way, and you run your apps faster that way also. it's nice to have that kind of power on demand though.

 

[EBM]

Multiple procs are useful for video encoding. There are video encoding programs like Flask Mpeg which are optimized for SMP. It speeds up divx encoding tremendously.

 

[MichaelD]

Dual-posting is frowned upon here at AT. I read your post in GH. It's a great post...a question I've asked here myself. I'm surprised this thread in this forum isn't locked. AT SleepyMod\<---must be on duty.

 

[GT1999]

If you're doing more than one thing at once your home machine that is heavily intensive, then yes, it's worth it.

 

[Confused]

well you could run SETI @ home on both CPUs, and that machine will get about 10-12 Work Units a day!

Check out SETI help thread (for subscribers) for details on the project and how to set it all up and join TeAm AnandTech

ConfusedBW

 

[krazykilroy]

Hey guy I'm sorry about double posting, and I didn't know that it was frowned upon.

My thoughts were that not everyone will see one of the posts, because not everyone scans all of the forums. I guess you happened to see both. I just wanted to get all opinions that I could get, because information is a powerful thing, so i put it on any pertinent board that i could.

I have gotten a good amount of good information from you members (thanks, guys) and the same from the other forum too.