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.
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"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.