Dual PII or Athlon?

neil

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Aug 2, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/2/00

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Ok another question...
I currently have a PII 333Mhz...
Should I upgrade to a 500+ Mhz Athlon?
or would it be better (and cheaper)
to add another PII 333Mhz onto a dual board?

Neil

Fujka

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Aug 2, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/2/00

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do you currently have a dual board? If so I say yes. m2c

Steve Whittet

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Aug 3, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/3/00

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In article <3988D37C...@ix.netcom.com>, fu...@ix.netcom.com says...

I have a dual PIII 600 ms NT at work and 700 ms Athlon at home
The NT ain't bad but, ...the Athlon is VERY good.
regards,

steve

neil

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Aug 3, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/3/00

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Thanks fellas.... I think Ill go with the athlon (800 Mhz maybe?)... I
just didnt know how it compared to a dual PII...
it would probably be hard (and more expensive) to find another PII chip, and
then buy a dual board...

Neil

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Aug 3, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/3/00

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with a dual mb you will have to run nt or linux to get anything out of the
second processor

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jordan walsh

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Aug 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/4/00

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I'd go athlon too, Im using a dual 600 PIII (g400 max) at work an my home
machine is a Athlon 850 (tnt2). My home machine kicks on the one at work for
interactivity (only parts of the rendering is multi threaded in max), culd
be something to do with the crap video card in the one at work though.

Jordan Walsh

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Adam Weiss

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Aug 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/4/00

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name wrote:
>
> with a dual mb you will have to run nt or linux to get anything out of the
> second processor
>

> "neil" ?nei...@swbell.net? wrote in message
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> ? Thanks fellas.... I think Ill go with the athlon (800 Mhz maybe?)... I
> ? just didnt know how it compared to a dual PII...
> ? it would probably be hard (and more expensive) to find another PII chip,
> and
> ? then buy a dual board...
> ?
> ? Neil
> ?
> ?

I've been using a dual PII 350 system and WinNT5.0 for 2 years now. I
think it speaks worlds about the system that I haven't had to upgrade
anything in my CPU for 2 years. The only thing changed was a CD-ROM
drive that died; that's it.

Of course, this system runs Windows NT. I like WinNt in that I can see
errors before they lead to fatal system crashes (thanks to the Event
Viewer), but NT's pickiness when it comes to non Microsoft software, and
its seeming inability to cope with DirectX, has led me to get another
computer, a laptop, that runs Windows 98 (I wish I was enough of a
computer geek to try dual booting, but the sad truth is that I'm not).

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Zsolt Kovacs

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Aug 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/4/00

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Would it be possible to network render with an Athlon an two Pentium systems?

jordan walsh

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Aug 7, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/7/00

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yep.
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Prime888

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Aug 8, 2000, 3:00:00 AM8/8/00

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How is the setting? Can anyone how had experence tell us the way to set it
up on over the network?

Many thanks!

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