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The Workstation Guide: Part 1
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Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
Aces Hardware has part 1 of their workstation guide up. In it, they compare several differant platforms including dual AthlonMP's, Athlon Thunderbirds, and Pentium 4 Xeon setups to name a few. They put all of them against each other in a series of workstation benchmarks. Here's a snip:
The benchmarks in this article and previous ones have clearly demonstrated that a dual CPU machine will offer 50 to 70% better performance in 3D Animation, Compiling, video-editing, video/music encoding software. But what about gaming? Can dual processing help the gamer? You probably know that Quake 3 is the only SMP capable game available for the moment, but there is another possibility that we must explore. Many gamers like to play their favorite MP3-songs on the background while playing games. In theory, a dual CPU configuration should have a significant advantage here: the OS can dedicate one CPU to playing MP3 and running the OS services, while the other CPU is totally available for the game.
We decided to test the theory and ran an Unreal tournament demo while Windows Media Player was decoding a 128 kbit/s MP3 song.
Find out the exciting conclusion as well as other benchmark results from here.
Posted by: Ion Silverbolt
They don't do many reviews, but Aces is the best IMO.
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