i saw some benchmarks for the Athlon MP and it's just absolutely sweet. it pretty much blew away the pentium 4 in everything but one test, in dual and single config, running at a lower speed. as a side note, the current athlon chipset running at @1.5 keeps pretty good pace with the P4. you can bet i'm going to save my pennies for a quad athlon MP board... well, if anybody other than Tyan starts making the mobos... -----Original Message----- From: Garl R. Grigsby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [EUG-LUG:2172] Re: PC Training aka Stan's has this... > That's cool. I'd like my next Linux box to be dual processor. I've had very > good luck with my dual processor Pentium Pro boxes (under both Linux and > Windows 2000). I run several dual PPro 200 boxes here at work for various tasks. Very fast for a PPro class machine. > I noticed (subjectively) a nice performance jump with dual > processor under Linux. About a year ago or so, dual processor Celeron boards > were popular, but then I came across someone saying Intel has fuzzed up the > Celerons so they wouldn't work on dual processor boards because the cheap > little processors were cutting into their Pentium III (or IV?) sales for > multiprocessor servers. > I remember hearing something about that, but I can't remember where. Shouldn't be too hard to dig up on the web though. > > Can anyone confirm this? Is there an inexpensive route to dual processors > using the AMD's Athlon chips. That I would like to try, you bet1 > AMD **just** released their multiprocessor chipset so they would be expensive right now. Give it 6 months. The way they are flying off the shelf, prices should drop quickly. They are reportedly unbelievably fast too. > > Dennis > > > From: Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:27:19 -0700 (PDT) > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [EUG-LUG:2155] PC Training aka Stan's has this... > > > >
