Dual Celeron Question

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I have a Dual Socket 370 Motherboard. It has only ever had one PIII 933 CPU
in it.

I have obtained 2x 1ghz Celeron CPU's. My operating system is Windows 2000,
512mb RAM 64mb MX400 Graphics card.

Would I get better performance from the two 1 ghz Celerons or the single
PIII 933.

Main Applications are Office 2000. I do play MS Flight Simulator 2004 as
well.

Thanks

Clive
 
I have a Dual Socket 370 Motherboard. It has only ever had one PIII 933 CPU
in it.

I have obtained 2x 1ghz Celeron CPU's. My operating system is Windows 2000,
512mb RAM 64mb MX400 Graphics card.

Would I get better performance from the two 1 ghz Celerons or the single
PIII 933.

Main Applications are Office 2000. I do play MS Flight Simulator 2004 as
well.

Thanks

Clive
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The 1ghz Celerons will not do SMP. That capability was disabled somewhere
around the 500s (probably when they switched to coppermine) if I remember
correctly. You also needed either an adapter, a special motherboard ( Abit
bp6?) or modifications with soldering iron and exacto knife to get celerons
to work SMP.

If you want do multiprocessing, get another 933 if you can find it. You
probably won't see much advantage in the apps you are using, but it will
speed up some programs and multiple apps.

JT
 
JT said:
The 1ghz Celerons will not do SMP. That capability was disabled somewhere
around the 500s (probably when they switched to coppermine) if I remember
correctly. You also needed either an adapter, a special motherboard ( Abit
bp6?) or modifications with soldering iron and exacto knife to get celerons
to work SMP.

If you want do multiprocessing, get another 933 if you can find it. You
probably won't see much advantage in the apps you are using, but it will
speed up some programs and multiple apps.

JT
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I am also under the impression that coppermine Celerons would not SMP. But
my motherboard manufacturer (Microstar) show 1ghz Coppermine Celerons down
as 'compatible for my Motherboard??

Clive
 
Clive said:
I am also under the impression that coppermine Celerons would not SMP. But
my motherboard manufacturer (Microstar) show 1ghz Coppermine Celerons down
as 'compatible for my Motherboard??

Clive
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Used singly, not in pairs.

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I am also under the impression that coppermine Celerons would not SMP. But
my motherboard manufacturer (Microstar) show 1ghz Coppermine Celerons down
as 'compatible for my Motherboard??

Clive
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They are compatible, just not in SMP. They will run singly just fine. Put 2
of them in there, and only one is used, if it comes up at all. There is no
way to do dual processing with Coppermine Celerons. I bet if you check
further, that is exactly what MSI will tell you.
 
I am also under the impression that coppermine Celerons would not
SMP. But my motherboard manufacturer (Microstar) show 1ghz Coppermine
Celerons down as 'compatible for my Motherboard??

Clive
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p3 based celeron did not do multi processor, intel disabled it, although
ABIT made a dual cpu motherboard called the BP6 which was hacked to support
dual celerons, it was very popular to get 366mhz x 2 and run tham at 100fsb
at 550mhz (early celerons only though)
making a nice 1100mhz total server for not a lot of money
as a result, intel certainly changed the designs for the p4, no p4's do
dual, only the xeon models (it was cutting in the the dual cpu market) :)
 
I am also under the impression that coppermine Celerons would not SMP. But
my motherboard manufacturer (Microstar) show 1ghz Coppermine Celerons down
as 'compatible for my Motherboard??

Clive
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"Compatible" only means that the chip will work in the motherboard.
For just about every motherboard, having it on the compatible list
just means that you can at the very least plug it into Processor
Socket/slot #1 alone, and it will function. That's all. It does not
mean that the motherboard has special features meant to defeat the SMP
lockout. If a motherboard has such a feature, you can bet they'll be
touting it.

As for your original question, given the applications that you gave, I
doubt you'd see much of a performance improvement (if any) by using
multiple processors. For gaming and basic office applications (which
is what you indicated), it's better to go with a single really fast
processor than 2 or more slower ones. I'm not much of a MS Flightsim
fan (little too slow paced for me), but unless the code has been
written using threads to take advantage of a multiproc setup, there's
no advantage to it.
 
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