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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