single P3 866 versus a Dual P3 550

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Hi,

I have noticed a few simlair posts to my question but not quite what
I'm looking for, hope you can shed some light?

Basically, as the subject mentions, I currently have a P3 866Mhz PC. I
have aquired a motherboard with x2 P3 550Mhz CPU's.

Is it worth me swapping all my bits into the dual PC box or should I
just stick with what I have.
Would I notice an increase in performance with the dual PC.

I am using Windows XP home edition.

Hope you can help.

Regards
Paul Roberts.
 
I have noticed a few simlair posts to my question but not quite what
I'm looking for, hope you can shed some light?

Basically, as the subject mentions, I currently have a P3 866Mhz PC. I
have aquired a motherboard with x2 P3 550Mhz CPU's.

Is it worth me swapping all my bits into the dual PC box or should I
just stick with what I have.
Would I notice an increase in performance with the dual PC.

I am using Windows XP home edition.
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I don't think Home will even use more than one CPU.

Even if you were using Pro, I doubt that posting to newsgroups would benefit
at all from multiple processors.
 
Even if you were using Pro, I doubt that posting to newsgroups would benefit
at all from multiple processors.
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Heh, yeah he forgot to mention what he's doing with the
system...
 
Thanks. I thought I would need to use XP pro, that's no problem.
I use the PC for variuos things such as Vmware, MS SQL and games.
 
Bob said:
Thanks. I thought I would need to use XP pro, that's no problem.
I use the PC for variuos things such as Vmware, MS SQL and games.
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On average, the single P3 866 will be faster than the dual 550,
significantly so.
 
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