What would be faster?

[hawkeye177]

A system with
dual 933mhz@1050 P3 with pc 133 memory

1333mhz 266 bus with pc2100 memory

[hawkeye177]

I need the the system as a whole

[hawkeye177]

I need help

[dragonB]

Depends on what ur doing...
Obviously you would need an OS that supports Dual processors.(hint:not win98)
For photoshop like programs that seem to do pretty well on dualies it would definetly be faster.
For games I seriously doubt a dual would be that much faster.
MHO, dragonB

[Shagnasty]

The one thing I've learned in my quest for
more speed is that it is very Relative. A
system that may be seen as Fast in one
instance, may be terribly slow in another.
To put it simply, there are just too many
variables involved to make a blanket statement.
I do know that Duallies are inherently better
at handling certain Power Hungry Apps such
as CAD, Video Editing etc...but then they
are still dependent on Memory, HD Access and
Transfer Rates..and on and on...Personally,
I DO NOT Overclock. I'm not only interested
in speed, but Longevity as well. If Cost is
a factor (and it usually is). You'll just
have to determine which system you can afford
to truly Optimize. I try to find the most
Stable, Fastest and most Upgradeable Mother
board (The ability to Upgrade is declining
once you get over the 1ghz range). Then I
look for the price break in CPU's. It would be silly not to pay an extra $20.00 for a
1.0ghz versus an 800mhz, but might not be
worth an extra $150.00 for the 1.2ghz versus
the 1.0ghz. Then I look for as much Ram as
the system can handle. I usually don't run
less than 768mb PC133. If you truly want a
FAST system...You probably want SCSI. That's
something I'm researching now. I'm not really
sure that SCSI is still faster than ata100...
After your through reading everyone's idea
of what's best...Then you can get back to
doing the research and deciding which is the
best way for you to go...doesn't really matter, once it's built...it's obsolete...
Enjoy!

[hawkeye177]

Will it beat a 1.3 or a 1.4 athlon in games.

[eagle1]

I really don't think that the dual p3 will beat a thunderbird at 1.3 ..... most games doesn't support multiple proccessors (is there a game that supports this feature????) but a lot of applications (image editing, etc) can benefit from dual procs. Also, as mentioned earlier, you need an OS that supports dual procs be it Linux, Winnt ,etc.

[hawkeye177]

I will be running windows 2000 not ME

[AuraEdge]

If you don't have a solid reason to go duallies, you should probably stick with one processor setup at higher speed.

The people who benefit most from a dual setup are people who know they need duals for what thier doing..Photoshoppers, Servers, CAD people, etc.

The only game I know of that supports 2 CPU's is Quake 3.
All your other games wont even acknowledge the other CPU.

Since you ask about games, I would say single CPU for you.

[Imperion1]

For memory the amd system.
Not sure about the cpu. Never ran a dual cpu system before. No reason to.

[hawkeye177]

What If i HAVE two 1.2 gigs in there. Will I be able to beat a 1.1 athlon

[eagle1]

With just one 1.2 AMD proccessor it surely going to beat a 1.1 proccessor. No need for two proccessors (as stated earlier by everyone.!!!) unless your running some serious apps..!!

[hawkeye177]

1.2 pentium 3 overclocked not 1.2 amd

[n715dp]

Hawkeye, dual processors will do you no good in games. One processor will sit there idle while the other does all the work for the game. This is because no game that I know of is written for duallies. Duallies will help out with basic workings of Win2K and things like Photoshop, or Video editing. Something I just thought of... is Flask multithreaded? If so, then you would be able to encoded DVD much faster with two processors.

[Imperion1]

Maybe if you were running Windows NT or Windows 2000 and using a graphics program like CAD, Photoshop, Illustrator, then it would.
But not playing games or using Win 9x or ME.