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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (66516)	7/23/1999 12:50:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577920

Re: "I've been looking at the dual Celeron BP6 combo myself. 366s OC'ed to 550. What exactly do I gain from Dual Celerons? Doesn't the program have to be made to utilize two processors, like Photoshop? Is the FPU power faster? What?" Are you old enough to remember hotrods? It's having it that counts more than using it. As for which Celeron to get, my experience is you'd be best off with the ones that will run on a 100MHz bus and the 366s might but the 333s have a better chance. Your call here. EP

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (66516)	7/23/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577920

OT - Do you have a high success rate with overclocking cached Celerons? I have a cacheless 266 that will overclock to 400 OK, but my recently purchased 333 will not run at 500. It will run at 450 if I boost the core voltage but then the video card is unstable because the PCI bus at sub 100 MHz is fixed to 1/2 the FSB clock. Best I have it running at stably is 375. Processor is not running too hot or anything obvious like that.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (66516)	7/23/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: fyo	Respond to of 1577920

Jim - Re: What exactly do I gain from Dual Celerons? Doesn't the program have to be made to utilize two processors, like Photoshop? Is the FPU power faster? What? You are right, a program has to support multi-threading for you to reap any immediate benefit from your second CPU. However, if you start up a second program, NT will automatically assign it to the CPU that's (almost) not doing anything. This makes all forms of multitasking much nicer. A good example is burning CDs. With a dual CPU setup, you can actually use the computer while burning (or making some other form of backup). Other examples include running programs like SETI or RC5 on one CPU. Or MPEG encoding. Or database crunching... --fyodor