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Snake007uk
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:p
and im a student, i bought the dual rig originally for the fact of finding out what is the big deal of having a dual rig and all i cany it was worth it
also i had 2 * amd mp 1800+ which i upgraded to 2800, i might sell the dual mp ( i bought them as a set proabaly will sell as a set.
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Dual AMD MP 2800+, Asus A7M266-D, 1GB Ram, 18.1GB u160 HD, ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, Creative Audigy ZS, Intel SRCU31A, Linksys NIC, iiyama 18.1 4637bk lcd |
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timfreeman
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How about 4 opterons?
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8qs.html
| Quote: | | Introducing the Tyan Thunder K8QS (S4880), the industry's first cost-efficient quad AMD Opteron motherboard for high performance computing. Using up to four AMD Opteron 800 series processors, the Thunder K8QS (S4880) also delivers two onboard gigabit LAN ports, dual-channel Ultra320 SCSI support, four Serial ATA RAID ports, integrated ATI RAGE XL 8MB video, and four PCI-X slots with one PCI legacy slot. |
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Snake007uk
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| Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 11:38 am Post subject: |
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i am considering a four way system as a workstation but im not sure if that would be a overkill 
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Dual AMD MP 2800+, Asus A7M266-D, 1GB Ram, 18.1GB u160 HD, ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, Creative Audigy ZS, Intel SRCU31A, Linksys NIC, iiyama 18.1 4637bk lcd |
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MADcow
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Location: RIT (Henrietta, New York, United States)
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| Snake007uk: what's your line of work that requires a quad box? i too have dual MPs (2600+s - slightly slower than yours) and i can't figure out what to do with all the power most of the time |
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timfreeman
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Me neither. Two cpus is pretty freakin fast.
I think it would be useful for something like a heavily hit database or webserver, but not really for the desktop. Unless maybe digital movie editing or something?
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spb
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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| MADcow wrote: | | i can't figure out what to do with all the power most of the time |
COMPILE!!!
...You mean there are other uses for processing power? |
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MADcow
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timfreeman: it does wonders for video editing. all media work, for that matter
thebell: yes, compiling also |
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timfreeman
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 12:10 am Post subject: |
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you have four ?
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MADcow
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ack! i misread. i thought you were talking about two. i have two.
sorry about that |
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