2 CPU's. wtf?!?!?!

[Prince of China]

Is it possible to have 2 or more CPU's??? I heard that you need to have a certain motherboard. I got an MSI 533MHz motherboard(?).

 

[SidewinderX]

Well, Athlon MPs are made for duel processing. You need a certian Mobo, and they don't usally have much of a perforfance boost in gaming, mainly in apps that can use it.

My friend is running one comp with dueal Athlon MP 1500s.

 

[Hudson]

my friend is also running dual processors with a 9800 pro. lucky basterd.

 

[crabcakes66]

They make mobos that support 4 and even 8 cpus i believe...of course they are for servers.

 

[Doobz]

yeah, that's mainly for servers and heavy duty rendering, though for the really big rendering jobs, you usually have to get a rendering farm of a few computers working together, and sometimes even that can take hours and i've even heard days

 

[Incitatus]

Actually dual CPU's won't give you a very big improvement in games, it's more for advanced raytrace and GI rendering.

 

[SidewinderX]

and video editing, and highlevel grpahics work, and server stuff. I think one of my friends managed to run a server on one processor and play in it on the other, no lag or fps hit.