Tom's Hardware: Topic Dual Athlons or Single?
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There are pros and cons really. I recently put together a dual Athlon system but using MPs which will cost twice as much as modded XPs. But I hear people have modded XPs and it works fine. So the first con is you have to mod your hardware. Second con would probably be you have to use a relatively old chipset although that also doesn't matter too much because it's stable and still pretty fast. You can put DDR333 memory in it and turn the FSB up to 150 or so but of course, no fancy dual-channel or anything. The big Pro of course is the great stability and multithreading ability of a dual system. If you still want to use your computer for other CPU intensive stuff whilst encoding DiVX at maximum speed then a dual system is for you.
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