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"Building a new PC...."

.... I've been hearing a lot about this 'duel processor' business, and was just wondering if its worth looking into further???

I intend to put a new PC together, rather than buy a pre-built one. I intend this new PC to be the main one I use for Image manipulation, Web Page Serving and possibly Video editing, so its gonna need to be a pretty snazzy piece of kit.

Would you think duel processors would be good here?

and if so, do you know of any good companies where I can get hold of duel processor motherboards??

Thanks

It's not as hard as it looks believe me, just do it carefully and make sure there are no bits touching before pluggin it in, don't rush it.

c.b.

You'll not get a clock speed increase but your system will run generally faster.

I want to unlock my XP2000, I have all the gear, I'm just afraid of screwing it and having to go back to a 333mhz hell :-)

I wasnt saying that it makes the cpu go faster although you can get more speed from it when unlocked for some reason, you unlock to reduce multiplier and raise fsb which is a better performance increase than just plain mhz, i think i will unlock my xp2000 it is really simple and i still have the stuff for when i did it with my old xp1800 chip, just wondering what speed i am likely to see if not unlocked, although i suppose that depends on individual cpu.

c.b.

AMD_MAN wrote:
> Sorry for trashing your thread mate but i would like to ask
> turbonutter a qustion, basically is your xp2000 unlocked to get that
> speed?, as i have just got myself a second pc with xp2000 chip.
>
> c.b.

Unlocking XPs doesn't make them go faster, it only releases the botleneck that is the CPU. Drop the multiplier, get system clocks in the high 190s and you're REALLY cooking with gas. Currently all I can do is 146mhz.

(so no it isn't unlocked)

Trash it all you want.

Thanks for the info :o)

I totally agree, you should get a high end P4 system because of the SSE2 instructions and you should have a good amount of fast ram (512MB minimum) this is becuase a lot of image software uses memory so if you get a P4 system and are not into overclocking then get RDram as it is quicker and has more bandwidth than sdram/ddr ram.

Sorry for trashing your thread mate but i would like to ask turbonutter a qustion, basically is your xp2000 unlocked to get that speed?, as i have just got myself a second pc with xp2000 chip.

c.b.

I see, something to keep in mind.

Cheers Rob.

Example:

My 1.83ghz AMD is actually better than a 2.6ghz P4 in most things, except the 2.6ghz P4 will encode a DivX in about half the time mine will. This is because it supports SSE2 - so anything that uses SSE2 (eg encoders) will be faster.

Probably not pound for pound, but basically DVI is the only thing Pentium 4s are actually good at.

Well, I won't bother going for a dual (got it right that time) system if its not something that is supported by much software, thanks.

Are pentiums actually better for DVI than AMD's offerings and such? Didn't know that, thanks :o)