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Dual Processor Support
Name: godbringer Date: January 8, 2003 at 12:11:10 Pacific OS: WinXP Pro CPU/Ram: Dual P3 1 gig/4 gig DDR
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Hi. Does anyone know where I can go to find a list of things that can recognize Dual Processors? I know WinXP Pro can, and that the OS will tell the other processor when to kick in, but is that alright for running gaming and Flash apps?
Name: Child_uv_KoRn Date: January 8, 2003 at 12:16:53 Pacific
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Yeah, XP works great for gaming with dual processors, but you might run into some problems w/ some games as you would with other OSs, cause the games don't suport dual CPU, but if they're newer games you shouldn't have a problem.
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Response Number 2
Name: ben rogers Date: January 8, 2003 at 13:58:48 Pacific
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Anything based on the NT kernel..XP/2K/NT itself. I'm not sure about variations of Linux? Quake 3 Team Arena is the only game I know of that can take advantage of dual processors.
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Response Number 3
Name: Balram Adlakha Date: January 8, 2003 at 14:25:56 Pacific
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All Distributions of GNU/Linux work with SMP, only that you have to have SMP support in the kernel, which the distributions install on their own these days...
And most other modern unix type OSs run SMP, the three BSDs (Freebsd, netbsd, openbsd) run SMP.
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Response Number 4
Name: p4sucks Date: January 9, 2003 at 07:25:34 Pacific
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Very few games take advantage of dual processors. I have seen comments that one of the quake game does but i have not tested that out for myself.
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Response Number 5
Name: Scruff D Date: January 24, 2003 at 20:44:56 Pacific
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I've got dual cpu's and have no problem running any game, even if it's in win9x. (I know 9x doesn't support 2 cpus, it just cancels the 2nd out) But In XP/2000 its great because most you can change the processor affinity so that applications will be running on one processor while the game is run on the other. BTW, if you ever get the chance to, get a dual cpu machine, its worth it :P
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