-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Kenneth E. Lussier hath spake thusly: > On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 21:19, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > I'm thinking about a new machine too. What motherboard do you have? > > Would that be your recommendation now for an Athlon? For dual Athlons? > > I don't know that I would spend the money on a dual Athlon board. Does > anyone really need that much power in a desktop system? OK, I can > understand wanting it, but the Athlon MP chips are expensive, and so are > the motherboards.
FWIW, IIRC you do not need to buy Athlon MP processors to use them in SMP configurations. (How many acronyms can one use in one sentence? :) And the answer to your question is yes, people really do need that much power in a desktop system. Just not all of them. Depends on what you use it for. If you're trying to solve complex mathematical problems or decrypt coded messages, or run computationally expensive simulations (yes, some people actually do these things as hobbies), then you need the processor power. But it's also nice to have a processor for your OS to run on while something else you're doing, like a compiling X or OpenOffice, is running in the background, so that you don't experience noticable system performance degredation. ;-) Actually, if there exists a cheap, reliable MP Athlon mobo, I'll probably do just that. Remember, it's great for encoding/decoding things like mp3s and DVDs... And because it would make Q3a positively sing on my Linux box. But truthfully I wouldn't buy it because I *need* the processor power. I'd do it just because it's damn cool. =8^) What I really, really want is a dual athlon laptop with 1GB RAM and a 64MB NVidia GeForce4 440 Go with 1600x1200 LCD panel. I'll keep dreaming... - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8xNIvdjdlQoHP510RAm5mAKCTadnjE2kdUtMe1wbmFEsQbgQQsQCfS5a2 MMd0hwGKmDjcm705dGc08nI= =S3YX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
