Dual Processor Motherboards...

[basfengineer]

howdy
my question is if a dual processor motherboard is only for office/business use or is it also for the home consumer?
Another question is if I have a dual processor motherboard, if, for example, I use two 500MHz P3 processors will there be the same performance as the 1GHZ?

Any help is appreciated

 

[Pabster]

AMD has made dual processing affordable, not just for big business, but for your home as well. Tyan's TigerMP is so cheap, it is but $15 more than a big-name single processor board ala ABIT or ASUS. Combined with the low prices of AMD processors...

As for 2 500MHz PIII in SMP equalling 1GHz ... nope. It doesn't work that way. You're likely to see only 75% of that performance-wise, best case scenario -- and only with software and an OS which can make full use of both processors.

AMD's SMP solution (SmartMP, as it is called) is night and day superior. Both processors have a dedicated path to system memory and other resources, allowing much greater overall thoroughput.