duel systems and gaming

[ThePunkGeek]

would a duel mp's offer any advantages to gaming?

 

[Colin]

Not unless you want to do something else at the same time. Duallies are actually a tad slower for gaming.

 

[cack01]

Personally I always felt that duals cans give you a slight advantage in gaming. This is b/c one cpu can work on the OS while the other is left to run the game. Although I doubt you will really see any major performance differences. One fast cpu is better than two slow. (gaming wise). But if you have two fast thats always a plus.

 

[Kingslayer]

There are more games out there than people realize that actually utilize SMP.

Of course the all-mighty Quake engine supports it. DFLW supports it with a console command. They never advertise if it is supported. You have to dig to find out.

 

[donny_paycheck]

There are more games out there than people realize that actually utilize SMP.

Of course the all-mighty Quake engine supports it. DFLW supports it with a console command. They never advertise if it is supported. You have to dig to find out.

RTCW, which uses the Q3A engine, also supports multithreading. This shows you what kind of programming ninja John Romero is.

 

[SickBoy]

well, a single CPU system will most always do better in gaming than a dual. There are very few multithreaded games. Quake III Arena is the only one I can think of.

BUT, if you ask me, a dual AthlonXP/MP system teamed with a GF3 or GF4 Ti card should do plenty well on gaming.

 

[Kingslayer]

RTCW, which uses the Q3A engine, also supports multithreading. This shows you what kind of programming ninja John Romero is.

No matter how much good John Romero does he will forever carry the Albatross around his neck. And it's name is Diakatana. He shoulda been exiled for that.

 

[DarkArctic]

Umm, wasn't it John Carmack who did the Quake 3 engine?

-DarkArctic

 

[donny_paycheck]

Umm, wasn't it John Carmack who did the Quake 3 engine?

-DarkArctic

Man, I think you're right.....one of those original ID software guys whoever it was!

 

[Strangelove]

Well I have NOT yet run in to a game that I have had problems running with my dual PIII9333 and Geforce3 card !! But don't buy a dually because you expect to get better gaming performance, get it because you like the fact that you can run several other CPU intensive programs WHILE gaming

 

[Sir-Epix]

would a duel mp's offer any advantages to gaming?

Only some games would improve from duallies q3a rocks with duallies. Over all though gaming doesn't need more then one processor

 

[qed]

yeah thats cos most games programmers have such ridiculously tight milestone deadlines that they haven't got the time to implement the proper multithreading that they'd like ..they're all on to get the damn thing running at all to save the bloody marketing department bleating.. umm sorry .. involuntary rant..
oh and some are too incompetant .. heh
.. Q