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Dual 233MMX vs. Single Pentium II 266

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Josh Rice

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Nov 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/9/97
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I've read the articles I could find associated with this question and
visited the BAPCo site, I even tried to find where to email Microsoft about
this question. Unfortunately, I haven't found a satisfactory answer, so I
thought I'd give it a shot here.

I'm anticipating purchasing a new system sometime in January, 1998. What I'm
curious to know is whether, in general, a dual 233MMX system is faster than
a single Pentium 266 system. I won't be getting any fancy bells and whistles,
a basic PCI video card with 4MB (I can't afford a new monitor, just the
processors), 32MB (perhaps 64MB) of RAM, and an IDE 4GB hard drive. I will
be using the system primarily for software development using the Microsoft
Visual Studio Enterprise Edition. I'll also be using Sun's JDK v1.1 for Java
development. The OS will be NT 4.0 and I'll be running the full BackOffice
package as well. MSOffice will be my applications suite. (If none of that
information was necessary, sorry for spamming the list). I don't know if the
packages were written with muliprocessors in mind and I couldn't find where on
the Microsoft site that little tidbit might be found.

So, to bring an end to this long question, does anyone know whether I'd be
ahead to buy the more expensive dual processing system or to stick with a
single processor, but make it a very good one?

Thanks for any help,
Josh Rice

P.S. Could you also send a reply to my email address?

Robert Bollinger

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Nov 9, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/9/97
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In my opinion, Dual pentiums @233mhz would be faster than a single p2 @266mhz
the reason is if you have 2 cpu's you really have twice the power like 2 pent
100's is faaster that a single p200.

However, if you leave an operatig system and go to another one (like 95)
that doesn't support 2 system processors your screwed. So ther you have it.

Robert

kais khelif

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Nov 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/18/97
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Of course a Dual 233MMx is gonna be faster than a Single Pentium II 266 Since NT
Takes advantage of Multiprocessing.
Also, I ve done some benchmarking on a Dual 233MMx Vs a Single 266 Pentium II and
results were pretty impressive.

Kais Khelif

kais....@state.mn.us

Michael Lebold

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Nov 18, 1997, 3:00:00 AM11/18/97
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the straight-up 32-bit power of the i686 design isn't as good as a dual i586?
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