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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (87200)	8/24/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 186894

Jim - <What do I gain from dual celerons? The program has to be designed to use both right?> Cheap server. Gamers. Tench can probably answer the technical aspects of this better, but I believe you may be able to garner performance gains for certain applications. Not that you should subject your Intel chip(s) to these non-spec'd conditions :-). PB

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (87200)	8/24/1999 7:41:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<What do I gain from dual celerons? The program has to be designed to use both right?> Not only the program, but also the OS. Windows 98 doesn't support more than one processor, but NT does. You might want to see Anand's dual Celeron experiment, done way back in March: anandtech.com I personally think the dual Celeron idea isn't a very practical one. Sure, you save money on two 500 MHz Celerons over a 600 MHz Pentium III. Judging from Anand's results, I'd guess that some apps will fare better on the dual Celeron 500 compared to the single Pentium III 600. But that would depend on the application. One of the limiting factors is the 66 MHz bus. Of course, the Future Power setup will allow for overclocking, so you could try cranking that bus to higher speeds. That would be a nice system for a hobbyist like myself, but that's about it. Perhaps once the Celeron officially moves to a 100 MHz bus, we'll be revisiting this topic. This assumes, of course, that Intel doesn't put any hardware block preventing dual Celeron configurations. Tenchusatsu

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (87200)	8/24/1999 7:47:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

What do I gain from dual celerons? The program has to be designed to use both right? It would make a nice NT or Linux workstation. I think a while back on Tom's Hardware site he said that he could burn a CD-ROM while playing Doom on a dual-CPU NT box. A trivial application, yes, but either would pretty much require exclusive use of the computer on a single-CPU system.