dual processors

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 5:44 pm

klinky wrote:Also I do not know where you get off saying the PIII was a hot chip and that you would have to mod a case to fit extra fans in to cool the beasts down is absurd. You could run the setup with two stock fans, the P/S fan and a exhaust fan in the back. That's it. No modding to somehow fit 12 fans in your system.

~klinky

yur comp won't last for more than a year like that lol 12 is a bit overkill and 3 is suck but like 5 (plus ps fan and monthly dustings, make sure it works) is about good imo. (maybe 6 for dualie)

anyway who doesn't replace their comp after a couple years??

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 6:31 pm

Knowname wrote: yur comp won't last for more than a year like that lol 12 is a bit overkill and 3 is suck but like 5 (plus ps fan and monthly dustings, make sure it works) is about good imo. (maybe 6 for dualie)

anyway who doesn't replace their comp after a couple years??

Well no, CPUs are designed to take a beating, my computer has yet to die. I am not running duals but I will tell you that one day during the summer, Kthulhu was using my computer with the door closed the windows shut and I had my O'C duron runing @ 950Mhz(from 600Mhz). I get home, the thing crashes and Kthulhu complains that it has been acting kind of funny all day long. I checked the CPU Temp and I shit you not it was @ 180F :O Which is very hot. It worked fine after I ventilated the room(which was around 100F, why Kthulhu didn't open a window I'll never know) and it still works in his current computer.

Also it should be noted that later model PIII's have SpeedStep, which if they start to overheat they will slowdown and use less energy so as not to burn up.

As long as you house your computer in a room with a ambient temp of around 60 - 70F you could be okay with the stock cooling.

~klinky

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 6:32 pm

could = should

my current CPU = AXP 1.4Ghz

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~klinky

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 6:48 pm

you and your crazy brother stories

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 10:57 pm

jbone wrote:
Mr Pilkington wrote:True, but not much power is required for a server.
*laughs in Pilkington's face*

That's an incredibly stupid blanket statement you made there, kid.

Look I don't what you say, no smalltime home file server needs Quad Xeon! Of course your not going to get by on a 286 but..... Anything 800 Mhz or better should be more than plenty.

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 12:30 am

Just to respond to something earlier in the thread - VirtualDub is SMP aware.

By default VDub launches 2 threads - one thread fetches the source, the other thread encodes it (and an optional third thread encodes audio). This is best illustrated when using AVISynth source as then the AVISynth process will run on one CPU and the VDub encoding thread will run on the other CPU. I've achieved 100% CPU utilization encoding AVISynth served to VDub.

BTW I'm running dual 700 P3's O/C'd to 933, have been for 2 years now.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 1:21 am

ErMaC wrote:Just to respond to something earlier in the thread - VirtualDub is SMP aware.

By default VDub launches 2 threads - one thread fetches the source, the other thread encodes it (and an optional third thread encodes audio). This is best illustrated when using AVISynth source as then the AVISynth process will run on one CPU and the VDub encoding thread will run on the other CPU. I've achieved 100% CPU utilization encoding AVISynth served to VDub.

BTW I'm running dual 700 P3's O/C'd to 933, have been for 2 years now.

O_o always heard it was ummph not multi-threaded :O

damn

~klinky

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 10:04 am

Mr Pilkington wrote:
jbone wrote:
Mr Pilkington wrote:True, but not much power is required for a server.
*laughs in Pilkington's face*

That's an incredibly stupid blanket statement you made there, kid.
Look I don't what you say, no smalltime home file server needs Quad Xeon!

You do realize that "server" applies to much more than just a little file-sharing box you run from home?

Mr Pilkington · Post by **Mr Pilkington** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 12:26 pm

I am well aware of that fact. It was my fault for using such a generalized term for a specific stamen. I had assumed that everyone would follow me form the previous line. True that for cooperate server you would need mas power; I figured that when I said "server" everyone would follow me and take for grated that I was referring to home use file severs. I am not a foolish as I look.

As for you Brolli, what exactly would YOU do with a Quad Xeon? You would have to use something like Lunux or Solaris in order to get your OS to recognize all 4 CPU’s. And i seriously doubt that you would even begin to know what to do with that kind of power. Don’t be a gullible fool.

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Mon Jan 06, 2003 6:03 pm

Ah, the dual processor 1.8 athlons are fun, and I love editing on them, but for the first time in this thread, I agree with Pilkington, but not in so many arrogant words. I have no fucking clue what I'd do with quad xeons. Probably get a massive line, and run a fileserver out of it...

You are wrong in the statement about needing an obscure and/or insanely tough to operate OS to run quads. Windows XP pro can support up to quads, you just have to buy the correct version to do it.