Its the computer chip of double procesors(lol)<br> <br> anyways coments on double processors?<br> Do they run 2 in WINME?<br> Would games use them both at the same time?<br> I'm not getting one... im looking forward to a Duron <br> How about a <IMG SRC="smileys/puke.gif"> Pentium III! HAHAHAHAHAA ok ok... I can't wait to see Dual Tbirds in action!
Ok, basically the DUAL PROCESSORS make the system more effecient and stable (makes sense huh? split up the work between two cpu's). It's great in servers, and games. Everything will use both at the same time and should be alittle faster than normal SINGLE PROCESSOR systems. But you gotta see some QUAD PROCESSOR systems. THOSE are crazy <IMG SRC="smileys/eek.gif"> lol hope this helped. <IMG SRC="smileys/wink.gif"><br> -bob
Winme don't support dual cpus. Only win2k and winNT supports over 1 cpu (winnt up to 4 cpus and win2k up to 16, - I think - ). The system is difficult to crach cause if one of the cpu takes a "nap" the other wakes it up <IMG SRC="smileys/biggrin.gif"> and also what Soccerboy007 posted. <IMG SRC="smileys/wink.gif">
Soccerboy is partially correct. Only applications that support SMP will take advantage of 2 processors. There are few game and a few "standard" apps that take advantage of that, like QIII (with a tweak) and Photoshop (above version 5.0). To date, only the advanced operating systems take advantage of two processors, those being WinNT, Windows 2000, Linux, Unix... Windows 9x and ME do not have the capability to even see the second processor, much less us it. If you're running standard apps that don't support SMP (symmetrical multi processing) the only benefit you'll see is the ability to run more then one at full speed. For example you could run a QIII server and also run Internet Explorer with little (if any) slow down in either application. Windows 2000 is a little better at utilizing the second processor when running one application then WinNT, but keep in mind that a true SMP application will allow multiple threads (or individual processes) to run at the same time and that's where the true benefit comes from.
