[SLE] New motherboard Dual Pent. III
Hello. I am planning to get a new motherboard soon and would like some feedback as to the pros and cons of a dual Pentium III motherboard. Will a second cpu on the same board be useable or will it not be used? Or should I just stick with a single cpu motherboard? Thank you in advance. James Ruhsam - jruhsam@pcisys.net Denver, Colorado state, usA -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Linux supports dual CPUs, and SuSE supports them out of the box. Dual CPUs work well (I have 2 PIII-500s), but some would argue that one very fast CPU is more efficient. Depends what you do really. If you have lots of processes or you run multithreaded apps, dual processors is the way to go. If you want to run single threaded apps like most games, one fast CPU would be better. However, things are leaning towards multithreading more and more these days. Java runs threads left right and center. KDE-2 has nicely threaded IO. If you want server stuff like Apache or MySQL, multiple CPUs will definitely work best.
I am planning to get a new motherboard soon and would like some feedback as to the pros and cons of a dual Pentium III motherboard. Will a second cpu on the same board be useable or will it not be used? Or should I just stick with a single cpu motherboard?
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I've been using a dual pentium III configuration at work. It works great. It has few pros and also cons. A pro in my eyes is that a not multi treaded program won't fully load your whole system. Like with vmware it only will use one proceessor. So youalways will have cycles free. This makes the system on the other hand slower for one not multi threaded program. The last might be a con. Another pro is that if you want to have high end performance it's a lot of times cheaper. Why don't you wait a bit longer and buy a dual duran or athlon system? This will be cheaper and wil probably out perform an Intel system. I'm using a singel athlon system right now. And it out performes a Pentium system with the same frequency. I hope it's any help to you. Regards, Joop. JR wrote:
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I am planning to get a new motherboard soon and would like some feedback as to the pros and cons of a dual Pentium III motherboard. Will a second cpu on the same board be useable or will it not be used? Or should I just stick with a single cpu motherboard?
Thank you in advance.
James Ruhsam - jruhsam@pcisys.net Denver, Colorado state, usA
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Joop Boonen wrote:
Why don't you wait a bit longer and buy a dual duran or athlon system? This will be cheaper and wil probably out perform an Intel system. I'm using a singel athlon system right now. And it out performes a Pentium system with the same frequency.
Which brings up the questions 1) When will these things be available? 2) How stable will they be? I was going to buy a board from Tyan [Pentiumn III] based on the Via chip set. The best review I've seen for it gave the thing a 2 out 10. Basically the thing is highly unstable with both cpus plugged in-( Doesn't matter how cheap/fast something is if it keeps crashing. Nick -- Nick Zentena "The Linux issue," Wladawsky-Berger explained, "is whether this is a fundamentally disruptive technology, like the microprocessor and the Internet? We're betting that it is." -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I have been running a dual PIII/450 system for a year mostly running NT4 and since feb W2k. I usually run Linux under VMWARE with no problems at all. I have tested SuSE 6.3 directly on the motherboard, with the kernel compiled with smp support, all ran well. The board in question is a Gigabyte GA6BDX. What is dissapointing is the Bogo-mips rating, approx 480 with 1 cpu and 890 with 2. I get a rating of just over 900 with a single K6II/450 that cost a fraction of the price of the two PIII's. I know the bogo mips is not an accurate indicator of speed, however I am a firm believer in AMD technology and I hope to get my hands on a fast Athlon in the not too distant future. David -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I have been running a dual PIII/450 system for a year mostly running NT4 and since feb W2k. I usually run Linux under VMWARE with no problems at all. I have tested SuSE 6.3 directly on the motherboard, with the kernel compiled with smp support, all ran well. The board in question is a Gigabyte GA6BDX. What is dissapointing is the Bogo-mips rating, approx 480 with 1 cpu and 890 with 2. I get a rating of just over 900 with a single K6II/450 that cost a fraction of the price of the two PIII's. I know the bogo mips is not an accurate indicator of speed, however I am a firm believer in AMD technology and I hope to get my hands on a fast Athlon in the not too distant future.
Not only is bogomips not an accurate indicator of speed, it's a complete irrelevance. Mystery still surrounds the issue of why people bother looking at it, let alone quoting it. People who use it as a comparison indicator, then get disappointed with the numbers they see, are just plain off the scale! There are plenty of benchmarks which you can use to figure out how fast your machine is. I tend to favour the "it is fast enough to do what I want comfortably?" one. A "yes" or "no" is a lot easier to deal with than comparing dozens of numbers. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Derek Fountain wrote:
There are plenty of benchmarks
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