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Ok I still have a VIA266A based board (gigabyte). Looking to upgrade my now ageing 1800+. This has a muliplier of 11.5. What would be the best upgrade. A Barton with its 512k cache. OK it would not be clocked internally as high as its based on a 333Mhz or 400mhz FSB, but would give me a bit of...

The Lightwave and 3dmax benchmarks are interesting. Upto now the Athlon was not a good a good performer due to the P4 optimizations (I assume SSE2). However now the opteron is very close in terms of performance, which probably means SSE2 is being used. Given the 1.2Ghz clockspeed difference...

If you have a good Motherboard with DDR then go for the Athlon upgrade. Otherwise you will have to get a new motherboard for the P4a. Again if you want to get the best out of a P4 then you need to get the i850 chipset and new Rdram (starts getting a little expensive). If you only have standard...

Where I can see it doing well, is in the Mid range server market 2-8 procs (Database work), or the high-end work station market, i.e. graphics work, CAD, CFD, etc. I.e. more than 4GB of memory may well be required due to vast data volumes, but not you don't need a huge number of processors.

Unfortunatly I'm talking HPUX. The only way we can see of doing this is to use the latest PA-RISC processors then when the upgrade is done, swap them out for the IA64s. However my customers are not very comfortable with this, plus of course HP would charg a nice hefty fee for this.

Ray a quick question regarding 32bit performance and Mckinley. I am in a position where a number of my customers will be moving to new HP servers with IA64. Currently they are running 32bit software (very large databases). In order to utilize 64bit they will need to upgrade the software as well...

where I can see a need for more than 4GB memory is high user Database applications with very low cost application servers on a small footprint. I for one work I systems with more than 7000 users. Now 32bit CPU's cope very well, however the 4GB limit is a problem, hence we need alot more...

AMD must have a much better implementation of SSE than on the P4. I mean for the same instruction at a lower clock speed teh AXP is faster. OK I don't know much about chip design, do teh SSE instruction use the great FPU or is the implementation so much better than intels?

I have managed to aquire and adaptec 2940 scsi controller and a scsi disk (for free). I was wondering if there is any real point in going through the hassle of installing it into my current system (ata100 IDE system). The reason being I would probably have to upgrade my power supply as well as...

You have to ask yourself, if your all your software will actually be running in parallel rather that you just task switching between software. Having word and excell open will not require two CPU's as you can only type in one application at a time. However if you are rendering in 3d Max whilst...

It really depends on the apps you're using. Are they capable of multithreading. If you are running lots of apps at the same time that actually require CPU time when running in the backround then yes two CPU's will be better than one. If you're just switching between single threaded apps then 1...

It's about time I upgraded my creaking old Athlon Classic 850, actually I'm going to build a new system and relegate the old system to a proxy/print/scanner server and general, kick something off in the background and leave it server. I am going to go Athlon MP (1.2Ghz) (running win2k/linux) and...

Is your OS and your video editing software multi CPU capable? If yes get another PIII. With the money you save you could get a Raid controller and some more disks which would give you much better performance for the work you are doing. To go the P4 route you will have to replace the motherboard...

Wow 16 way Duron at no 7 in the Multiproc benchmarks. Impressive.

It depends on your needs and how often you want to upgrade. Will you want to upgrade the machine yourself (on a regular basis) or buy a new unit in a couple of years or so. The dealer was right about getting a higher speed P4 for upgradability reasons as Intel is changing the packaging for P4s...