SMP makes a difference, doesn't it? (Score 1)

>> does having a dual 550 make that much difference to a single 550

it does, with some proper operating system. remember, win98 or similiar rubish won't work on dual processor machine. my personal favourite is linux, but u don't get a lot of games for it. (at least, not my kind :-). ) For me Win2000 works fine, but none of pre-releases had true 3D support, so if u are happy to run directx 3.x, suit yourself. in fact i think win2000 official release will have directx 7.0 with true SMP support... that should satisfy the every gamer, keeping in mind, that one can set up a game server and play at the same time on the same machine without serious losses in speed. in fact, u might not even notice it. playing net games is even much more fun, when, on win2000, one cpu is supporting the game, meanwhile other one works on your network status, os and other... good suggestion, try using some mean 3D video card (geforce, tnt2, voodoo3, etc. will do), to keep the load off the processors. i noticed with shit card (intel i740, with whatever memory on it)u have some great losses in speed, due to the fact that both processors are working to satisfy your card requests.

so, i think, there's still much to go in SMP gaming, keeping in mind that the game itself should support SMP, not just your os alone...

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