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 > >
