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Do any duel cpu AMD motherboards exist yet? If so what brands?
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Well, there are some in existence as I saw pics of a running dual palomino system from CeBit a couple of weeks ago. I dont think they've made it to the production line yet though. And even if they have, it really doesnt matter because AMD is saying TBirds and Durons are NOT SMP capable. So at any rate we're going to have to wait for the horsey before we can go dual on Athlons. Oh well.
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Well, it turns out the dual proc boards I saw at Iwill Asus, and Abit are all intel boards, as Sickboy indicated they must be. Too bad, because I really would like to build a dually for folding, but I want to stick to AMD for now. So I'm back to deciding between the kk266 and some Abit board with the kt133-a chipset.
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Friend of mine tried duel p3 733's and hasnt gotten it to run yet. after seeing that when dual boards are available for AMD chips i think im gonna stay away. 
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Dual CPU systems don't really help you much currently. Windows 98/ME are not even threaded to take advantage of the second processor in SMP setups. So the application has to be specially coded to take advantage of the second CPU. Even in Windows 2000, as I understand it, the second CPU rarely comes in to play. So basically the first CPU does most of the work, while the second just sits there idling away most of the time.
yeah only certain software can take advantage of a dual cpu system. A nice advantage is however when running in win2k you can multitask, like burn a cd and play a game at the same time (provided the game will work ok in win2k ) Dual cpu's supposedly work very well for multitasking
) Dual cpu's supposedly work very well for multitasking
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Windows NT supports dual processors..i know thsi for a fact cause i have a huge big freakin book that says windows NT is more stable than other OS also..u can set windows NT to use ceartain apps on which pocessor...either have one app use just one processor or have it use both....I havent gotin NT yet but i dont care that it kinda outdated...it doesnt limit FPS like 2000..which might i add was made from part of the NT structure as i was told but this may not be true...but i belive it is..but that my opinion..so far anyway....anyway NT does support Dual Processors....why 2000 doesnt im not sure but there should be some way if it was made from NT...but then again that may point out that it wasnt made from NT.....just my 2 cents.....also 2000 may be more stable but who knows
This is not incompatable with Nagorak's comments- I've considered going to win NT, but frankly don't want to add to my already full plate if you know what I mean. (Having a normal life AND learning about OCing) One thing though- Does anyone know what OS are used by the people with commercial dual cpu server systems? I mean someone must be getting some good results or they wouldn't bother with the extra expense.
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I hear ya about the "having an normal life and learning to overclock" thing. I can't imagine some of these guys in here like Dimmreaper and OpenFriday who have 1000+ posts since the new board..... I have been active since January, it seems like I am in here every free moment of the day, and I only have, well, 270 some posts.... Learning a new OS is certainly no easy endeavor. I have been using Win98 for 2 years now and am just now getting the tweaking and running stuff down.... can't imagine having to do it all over again. Anyway, just a thought. To add a little on the SMP thing - I had a friend who had a BP6 and dual Celly 366's OC'ed to 550 and he just got sick of messing with it, trying to get Win2K and Win98 and Linux to play together nicely... he got rid of the whole setup and went to Win98 SE and a MSI K7T Pro 2A with a Athlon 1 GHz. Way, way more powerful for 99% of the stuff he does. SMP just isn't there yet for the average user. It'll get there though....
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I hear ya about the "having an normal life and learning to overclock" thing. I can't imagine some of these guys in here like Dimmreaper and OpenFriday who have 1000+ posts since the new board..... I have been active since January, it seems like I am in here every free moment of the day, and I only have, well, 270 some posts.... Learning a new OS is certainly no easy endeavor. I have been using Win98 for 2 years now and am just now getting the tweaking and running stuff down.... can't imagine having to do it all over again. Anyway, just a thought. To add a little on the SMP thing - I had a friend who had a BP6 and dual Celly 366's OC'ed to 550 and he just got sick of messing with it, trying to get Win2K and Win98 and Linux to play together nicely... he got rid of the whole setup and went to Win98 SE and a MSI K7T Pro 2A with a Athlon 1 GHz. Way, way more powerful for 99% of the stuff he does. SMP just isn't there yet for the average user. It'll get there though....
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Personally, I can't wait for the 760MP chipset to come out. Running a dual athlon box should be faster than a dual Intel box just because of the way the chipsets are set up. If I heard right, the intel chipset has each processor sharing the bandwidth to the northbridge, while the athlon chips will each have a dedicated path to the northbridge. Of course it would help tremendously to have software that is optimized for smp ;-)
Dually CPUs are supported by Win 2k Advanced server. In fact it supports up to 8 cpus. I don't know what you would gain from doing this for normal applications though. Certainly there would be a gain from the server side if supporting multiple work groups in constant state of activity.
I'm building a second box to complete my MCSE and to host my current systems on my @home connection. I don't know for certain if I can do it yet but would like to use it as an exchange server to provide support for Outlook mail clients. Outlook rocks over Outlook express.
Downside is you won't see too much game support from this OS. Just depends on what your trying to do with it.
I'm building a second box to complete my MCSE and to host my current systems on my @home connection. I don't know for certain if I can do it yet but would like to use it as an exchange server to provide support for Outlook mail clients. Outlook rocks over Outlook express.
Downside is you won't see too much game support from this OS. Just depends on what your trying to do with it.
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