Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (10639)	3/8/2000 7:48:00 PM
From: Plaz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Yeah, if you're the type of person who likes to have a bunch of apps open at once than a dual is the way to go. It really goes a long way towards keeping the system responsive. I've been using duals for 4+ years now. Wouldn't go back! Plaz

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (10639)	3/8/2000 10:25:00 PM
From: Cormac	Respond to of 14778

Thanks a lot for the answer with some real time experience...much appreciated Good Luck and Good Trading Cormac

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (10639)	3/9/2000 1:16:00 PM
From: Jamse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Dan, do I have to run WIn2000 to take advantage of the dual processors or will they still perform with Win98? Also, I thought I read somewhere an application has to be designed for multi-threading before it will take advantage of the dual processor. thanks in advance, jamse

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (10639)	3/9/2000 7:58:00 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Respond to of 14778

A Long story with the moral being: Build a dual CPU system. and if you do get Win 2000. I don't know how they measured it but I saw a report that said Win 2000 was 20% better at multi-tasking than Win NT 4.0.

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (10639)	3/10/2000 12:33:00 AM
From: Zeddie88	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Dan, Is your dual processor set-up on Windows 2000 supporting multi-monitors? Thanks. Sue :)

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (10639)	3/10/2000 10:17:00 PM
From: Zeddie88	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Dan, Thanks for your insight! Your post on dual processors was fascinating for a single processor person like me <ggg>! Is the 550MHz processor that you are using referred to as the "flip chip" as well? Also, at what FSB speed are you running your system i.e., are you running both processors at their rated FSB of 100Mhz or are you overclocking to 133MHz? Thanks for your help. Sue :)