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To: Scumbria who wrote (114165)	6/4/2000 11:47:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575761

Re: "A dual processor 1GHz chip will deliver better performance than a single processor 2GHz chip, for many applications" I'm typing this on my dual Celeron processor system. Total MB + processors cost ~$300. Where can I get a dual processor AMD system? EP

To: Scumbria who wrote (114165)	6/5/2000 12:07:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575761

How do you figure that, Scumbria? A dual processor 1GHz chip will deliver better performance than a single processor 2GHz chip, for many applications. If the processor scales otherwise (i.e., the 2ghz chip really twice as fast, and not constrained by slower cache like the Athlon classic), there's no way 2 1ghz processors can beat it. There's a queueing theory proof, even. Of course, scaling is a big issue at that speed, given the memory/disk/io bottlenecks and so on. On the other hand, 2 processors ain't going to do you any good running Windows apps. On the other other hand, nothing is going to make much difference running Windows apps, at that speed. Cheers, Dan.