duel processor?

[cloud]

I've heard about people running 2 processors in the same machine.
How would you hook up 2 processors to one motherboard?
I know i'm a noob but i'm learning.

 

[U-Toast]

some mobos are made for dual processors, so they have 2 sockets ont he board

 

[Kadahaf]

2 processors is for servers and is pointless if you run it as a PC

 

[cloud]

Oh i'm not gonna do it, was just wondering I do a lot of pondering.

 

[Rizinc4]

2 processors is for servers and is pointless if you run it as a PC

Actually, Dual P3's work EXTREMELY well for everyday PC use.

 

[ChaosBlizzard]

2 processors is for servers and is pointless if you run it as a PC

Actually, that is not true at all. Handling two threads at once, no matter what they are can greatly improve performance.

See:
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MjIz
http://www.2cpu.com/articles/99_1.html
http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA56285?pubdate=12/18/2000
http://www.cpu-central.com/Articles.asp?article_id=6684&decor_int=2

Quote:
"The P4 performs the test in 82 seconds and the Athlon in 71 seconds. But a dual PIII is a different story. The response time is a blistering 50 seconds, or 39 percent faster than a P4, achieved by the extra cache of the two processors."

It doesn't matter if the applications support it or not. If the OS supports it, then the system will be able to take on two threads instead of one. If it does that then there will be two FIFO ques in the system instead of one. Meaning two applications can be given CPU time at once.

For instance if you are playing HALO. Halo will get all the attention it needs via one CPU, whilst the OS processes get the attention they need via the other.

If you do a search on SMP and how it works many sites will tell you this.

Run this bench, let me know what you get:
http://clibench.daemonware.ch/index.php?seite=download&PHPSESSID=5ba417a4171d6246bf8277bdb4c70218

If you only have one CPU, you can only do one thread.. That will show you the diff between one CPU and two..

 

[lazerman]

Where can I get dual P3's and a mobo that supports it?

 

[TheMajor]

You can try EbaY, I am sure they got alot of them.

 

[GageMW]

will it work with P4s? or do you need to change to Xeons if you want better preformance then P3s?

 

[slvrstang]

Run this bench, let me know what you get:
http://clibench.daemonware.ch/index.php?seite=download&PHPSESSID=5ba417a4171d6246bf8277bdb4c70218

If you only have one CPU, you can only do one thread.. That will show you the diff between one CPU and two..

what do you get?