Gone Duallie

**BeerCheeze** · Posted: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:52:24 Post Subject: Gone Duallie

Well... I managed to get a board & CPU's off Deatstar, so as of this weekend my main rig is now running as a Duallie.

Here's the spec's:

Tyan Tiger MP Motherboard
Dual Athlon MP 1800+
512MB ECC PC2100
SiliconImage IDE RAID controller
2 x 60 Maxtor HDD's RAID 0
1 IBM 60GB HDD
ATI 8500LE (deciding which card to upgrade too)
XP Pro

So far, so good... it's pretty darn fast, and operates real smoothly.

knight0334 · Posted: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:39:04 Post Subject:

hehehe.. sucker..

now you'll never wanna go back to single CPU.

Just figure another $100 for SMP board and $200+ for CPU when building future machines. Wave

**BeerCheeze** · Posted: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:42:57 Post Subject:

Your most likely right!! I've already been looking at replacement boards Bang Head

knight0334 · Posted: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:15:01 Post Subject:

I'm up to (3) SMP machines for my personal use.

main rig: SMP K7D Master -L (2)1200MP @ 1533mhz
web/file server: Acorp 6A815EPD (2)700 P6's
experiment/future DNS server: Asus P55T2P4D (2)200mhz P55c's

The rest in the house are all single CPUs.

Charlie · Posted: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:17:04 Post Subject:

Glad you like it!

Red Squirrel · Posted: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:39:20 Post Subject:

Now you just need some appz that can support dualies.
Actually I have a question about dualies, if you're running multiple applications, do they actually load balance on each CPU?

**BeerCheeze** · Posted: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:43:53 Post Subject:

If they are multi-threaded applications then each new thread will run on different CPU's. The OS handles assigning threads to CPU's.

Red Squirrel · Posted: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:47:41 Post Subject:

That's cool. Would love one of those. Though my Athlon 2000+ alone makes enough heat to keep my room warm in winter so I can imagine a duallie. Grin

I had to block the vent completly otherwise it's too hot in here. Sometimes I even have to open the window when it's 30 below. Grin

**Jason** · Posted: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 23:53:35 Post Subject:

That heat issue doesn't sound right man... I wish mine kicked out heat like that... I have electric baseboard heat which can't even keep the place comfy in the dead of winter, plus it costs about $300/month just for my electric bill... I'd move a pc into every room, and cut the bill in half!!

trekrider · Posted: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 00:11:42 Post Subject:

S'mors anyone???