dual processors

[minutrice]

ok... here's the deal. My roommate is building a dual processor computer with dual 700 celerons. I have no idea why he is doing it either. He doesn't even do anything but make copies of cds and he never uses those copies. He is the type that tries to act like he has the top in everything. I think that is why he wants dual processors... just to say he has them. Anyway, what programs are written to use dual processors. And why would you want dual celerons? Those are the slowest processors in the world.

Josh

[alber]

Hope he's using an O/S that supports dual processors or one of them is just going to sit there and do nothing:

http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardw...orials/3039/1/

[Demosthenes]

Celerons are not necessarily slow. The first generation Covingtons were slow to beat all hell. They had no L2 cache and were sold as an attack on AMD and the lower end processors. Then they added L2 cache on the Menodcino, and it ran at ungodly speeds. Very overclockable. Then the Coppermine Celerons are really no different than a PentiumIII, they have less cache (in most cases half). They are cheap, but can hold their own.

Usually CADers and graphic renderers use dualies.

Respectfully,

Demosthenes

[Hpro]

He will need either
NT4 or Win2K or WinXp or Linux to make those Processors come alive and give what they are supposed to do - even then as long he isn't networking them it doesn't make any sense...
Stay away from Win9x line - no way..

[Floppyman]

Since when did Intel make the newer celerons to support SMP? I was always under the impression the newer celerons didn't support SMP, but maybe that changed.

[minutrice]

that's what I thought too. The socket370 celerons right? Are there any others that aren't socket370? I dunno. I don't know anything about celerons.

[Floppyman]

I think the older pga celerons supported SMP. I know the socket 370 PIII supports SMP but I think you have to have the right stepping. I don't think the socket 370 celerons support SMP, but I could be wrong.