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Subject: Re: DUAL-PROCESSOR Systems - Are there any benchmarks?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:12:17 06/26/99

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On June 26, 1999 at 17:54:17, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote:

>Greetings!
>
>My computer shop says they can put two Intel 550MHz Pentium III or Pentium II
>400MHz processors on a tyna BX Motherboard for a dual-processor system.  They
>say this would effectively double the speed through task sharing, which is
>handled automatically by the Motherboard -- no special software required.  So
>presumably that would give me a 800-1100 MHz system (effectively), and chess
>playing software such as Chessmaster, Hiarcs, Shredder, etc. would run twice as
>fast.
>
>Are there any benchmarks or other published info available for dual processor
>systems with chess playing software?  Is anybody using or testing such a system?
> I would welcome any feedback...
>
>Thanks!
>JRM

Tell 'em they are full of snot.  You need a multiprocessor-aware operating
system, ie Linux or windows NT.  Not win98.  Tell them there is no such
thing as a "motherboard that takes care of using two cpus."



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