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To: Scumbria who wrote (114310)	6/5/2000 2:11:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575399

Scumbria, Benchmarks typically load the system quite heavily, otherwise they would be useless as benchmarks. Applications that don't require a lot of computational power require neither a 2GHz CPU, or dual 1 GHz CPU's. Most benchmarks (Anand did some about a year ago) show hardly any improvement of dual CPU systems over single CPU systems - with single CPU running at the same speed as 2 CPUs in the dual system. I think the reason for this is that very often you have bottlenecks, where 1 section of the code needs to be finished before theprocessing can continue. I am running a dual CPU on Windows 2000. Windows 2000 improves things a lot over NT. From my very unscientific testing (looking at performance monitor and utilization), the second CPU adds a marginal improvement. Joe