SMP: Wouldn't Dual Celery's make better Dual system because of the BUS ?

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BigLance

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Here is where I'm getting this idea, a Dual board with 2 P3 133FSB processors have to share the BUS. The Bus is 133Mhz so they are being limited over what they could run. Now, if you had a Dual Celeron config. (say on a 133MHz FSB board like the ABIT VP6) Wouldn't the 2 Celerons share the 133Mhz Bus and run at 66Mhz each like would normally not being limited as much as the P3's ? Is there any truth to my theory ??

Let me know, thanks !
 
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zippy

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Yup, they have their own 66MHz channels on the bus. Plus, the second CPU is idle much of the time since not even close to all programs have SMP support!

I always find it funny when some newbie says that he/she is going to get two c366s put them in a BP6 and have a 1.1GHz machine. :) Hehehe, I had a kid come up to me in school last year and start talking about computers (he somehow knew I knew a lot- most people don't, I don't like to tell everyone because most people are computer illiterate (beyond the net, AOL, MS Office, and maybe a few games)at my school and I'd have a ton of questions) and he told me he was gonna do the C366 thing- I laughed then tried to straighten him out! It didn't work, he still didn't believe that two 550MHz processors don't equal one 1.1GHz CPU otherwise I'd have a server board with 4 Xeon's and not upgrade for the next 3 years. ;)

EDIT: The previous section was VERY loosely related to this thread- he said that the two 66MHz buses=one 133MHz bus basically and I mentioned someone saying two processors=1 really fast process. I am not making a comment about whether or not the thread creator is a newbie!
 
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BigLance

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Newbie huh ?? Guess almost 6 years isn't long enough for a 17 year old...

Most programs are not SMP "advantage taking" but some programs will go to one CPU and some will go to another, most programs won't use both CPU's at once but will pick one or the other, this helps if your say gaming and have some open (running) programs in the background, the game will get one CPU to itself while everything else will load down the other CPU- in theory, this is why I want Dual, it is much cheaper than 1 single fast processor, although its not as fast as one single processor (at the speed of the combine dual cpu's) like you said, it sure is a hell of a lot cheaper and funner....
 
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zippy

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Who said you were a newbie? I specifically said, "I am not making a comment about whether or not the thread creator is a newbie!" The reason I said that was because I had encountered some newbies that had asked a really dumb question that was almost along the same lines (that two of one thing equals one really fast thing). Sheesh, for a 17 year old you don't read so well. ;) hehe j/k...kinda. :p

BTW, 6 years means jack sh!t- wanna impress me? How about something that is qualitative instead of quantitative.

You must not go into OT to see jonnyGURU's rants about people that call him up for tech support/RMA and then say they are MSCE certified with 20 years experience. Hmmm, that means jack squat considering they couldn't even do something easy like mount a heatsink/fan right or mount a motherboard in a case.
 
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zippy

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LOL, I had added that right after I posted too (an hour before you did)! Silly Lance. :) hehehe
 
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BigLance

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Built 12 computers from scratch
Partially built/ rebuilt around 20
Upgraded countless
CISCO Networking student right now...
I am the Head Computer guy at school (dont get paid :( I'm still student) But I have to fix/ replace pretty much everything.. lota work to do in 1 hour / day !

Does that help ??
 
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