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5th January 2004, 14:07 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Dual XP Motherboard I've got 2 XP2200+ lying here and was wondering that kind of mobo would be qualified to handle both was looking into the MSI K7D-MASTER-L (priced around €200) any other alternatives?
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5th January 2004, 14:53 | #2 |
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| Verry good mb , I use one in my little fileserver |
5th January 2004, 14:55 | #3 |
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| what is the advantage of an mp mobo with two processors? |
5th January 2004, 15:02 | #4 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| faster multi-tasking. no advantage in "current" games.
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5th January 2004, 15:10 | #5 |
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| ok thx and also the fact that you can run two consoles of folding |
5th January 2004, 15:14 | #6 |
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| 64-bit PCI slots, and games do have an (veeery little) advantage, windows running in the background won't slow it down as much anymore. It's really too bad nVidia or via never came up with a good dual AMD chipset. the AMD chipset is just too flawed. |
5th January 2004, 15:25 | #7 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| flawed in what ways?
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5th January 2004, 15:42 | #8 |
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| Slow memory bandwith... Gaming on a dually doesn't go better , the agp is slow, in most game benches duals suck |
5th January 2004, 15:49 | #9 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| no problem, not the main purpose of the machne
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5th January 2004, 15:52 | #10 |
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| Main purpose=folding? |
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