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P3 500 vs. Dual P2 300

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1Brett

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Hi,

This struck me as a little odd.

My work PC is a BX board, a P3 500 Katmai and 128MB, 100Mhz FSB. I'm running NT4 WS on this box, relatively fresh install.

I just finished putting together a box at home with an old(er) Micron motherboard from a Powerdigm XSU. This is a proprietary chipset, made by Micron (Samurai chipset?). It's running dual P2 300's with 256MB ECC on a 66Mhz FSB. On this box, I have a fresh install of Win2k Pro.

Now I haven't had a lot of time to run tests on the dual box, but one thing I noticed right away is that the dual box certainly *seems* to feel snappier. (?!?)

My guess - before building the dual system - was that it would have been slower, mainly due to the 66Mhz FSB. But that surely doesn't seem the case.

Without running more tests side-by-side, does this sound like a case of the grass *seeming* greener with the dual system? Or am I just smoking said grass? 😛

At any rate, I'm pleasantly surprised at the apparent performance gain of dual processors. I've never really messed with a dual setup before - other than at work - and I like it. We have a dual P3 600 system at work running NT4 SBS, but it doesn't feel as snappy as this fresh install of Win2k -- of course we have a ton of services running on that machine.

Brett
 
I think it may have something to do with the fact that the dual system has Win2k pro on it, as opposed to the older and inherently slower NT4. I could be wrong though 🙂
 
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