29 Jan
2003
29 Jan
'03
5:53 p.m.
Hi Chris
I'm curious how much work you get out of your second processor. This
freebsdbox I'm on has the dual Abit Celeron. I've found to put the
second processor to work generally requires more effort than to leave it alone.
The first cpu can be 95% employed and the second will be at 0% unless you
start another intensive task while the first is still running. This was true
for me on Linux 2.2 kernels also. I've moved to single processor Athlon.
Cheers.......Al
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Chris Cannam wrote:
Steve Harris wrote:
I'm /very/ happy with my Athlon, its float
mangling / $ is amazing.
OTOH if you want dual CPU I'd go with PIII.
Dual-PIII seems to work out quite a bit more expensive than dual-
Athlon. I have a dual Athlon on an MSI motherboard and it works
very well -- I previously had a dual-Celeron Abit motherboard
which was nothing like as reliable (tolerable, but not faultless).
The MSI board seems better put together, too.
But it may be excessively hard to cool two Athlons quietly
enough for a recording environment. My machine is pretty noisy
and I don't know whether there'd be enough headroom to install
a much quieter cooling system.
Chris