Need info on dual athlon Mobo

[Bryan]

Okay...I was doing a bit of research on a new computer that I am going to be using for some video work.
I was going to go with ABIT's KT7A-RAID. Then someone informed me that the dual athlon's should be coming out within the next few months.

Is that going to happen? What should I look for? Are ASUS or ABIT going to be making one? Is there a better mobo manufacturer than ASUS and ABIT?

Man...the idea of dual athlon's running at 1.2 GHz really thrills me. But, I am having trouble hunting down info on any future dual athlon motherboards.

Thanks for any help.

[Liquid_N2]

Im not sure on this one, sorry.

But I know this, as from past experiences with using dual pentium boards you don't actually start using the second processor unless you are doing a lot of 3d real-time rendering, that when the extra processor power comes into play.

As for video editing software, games and general use i don't think you would see much difference if any in performance.

Anyone else who has a dual board know any different?

[LutaWicasa]

Ya might get more results over on the AMD CPU forum. :)

[Sohryu Asuka Langley]

AMDs new 760-something chipset will have dual CPU support.. you will also need a multiprocessor kernel OS..ie WINNT... and dual processor usually only helps with multitasking or SMP native apps.

[wild_andy_c]

It will be worth waiting for AMD 761DP boards that have full palamino/morgan/mustang support.

Imagine that - 2x Mustangs with DDR 266Mhz RAM - WOW!!!!!!

[Ashyukun]

To some extent, it depends on what you're going to be doing your video editing work in... I am quite certain that the newer (5.0+) versions of Adobe Premiere are optimized to use SMP if you're running them in an OS that will allow it to use the code (i.e., W2K or NT). I can -really- tell the difference between running Premiere in W98 and only using 1 processor and in W2K using both. Of course- I'm running PPro 200's, so you'd expect the difference to be a bit more noticable. On a new computer, it might not be as obvious, and you might be better off blowing the extra money you would spend on the extra CPU on more memory- in video work, the less that the program has to use virtual memory or straight load from the HD, the faster it's going to be. Also, if you're using Linux, you might notice the difference between the SMP and non SMP. But, if you're doing video editing in Linux, let me know! I haven't had much luck finding a good NLE Video program for it!

Also, depending on what kind of video work you're going to be doing, you might want to look and see if there are versions optimized for the different CPUs- one of the DVD conversion programs I use has specialized optimizations for the PIIIs and for the AMD 3D codes.