i have seen the review on the bi-processoring especially the <A HREF="http://www4.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q1/020211/dualathlon-05.html" target="_new">MPEG4 benchmarks</A> & the <A HREF="http://www4.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q1/020211/dualathlon-10.html" target="_new">multitasking</A>.
(extract: "In fact, anyone who regularly runs several applications in Windows 2000 or XP at the same time may also benefit from two processors." )
i didn't know that could involve an huge gain of 80%.
i use to create DivXs & work with multiple applications. i need that combo!
this will be my next step configuration.
flat: the ATB is <A HREF="http://www4.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q1/020211/dualathlon-01.html" target="_new">not compatible</A>. even the memory must be replacing by a <A HREF="http://www4.tomshardware.com/mainboard/02q1/020211/dualathlon-09.html" target="_new">registered</A> one.
<i>if you know you don't know, the way could be more easy ...</i>
Yup and at that time several GB of RAM is normal, the videocard memory runs at a couple of douzens GHz and the GPU on 5 GHz.
You will have disks containing TerraBytes.
And the memory bus will be 8x the speed (how do you call that: 4x=quad, 8x=oct?).
Sounds crazy but if I said to someone 3 years ago that we would have 2 GHz CPU and 128MB video memory he would have laughed in my face.
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