Comments on: My sturdy old Pentium-3 dually for sale! http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/05/26/my-sturdy-old-pentium-3-dually-for-sale/ Jonathan Stanley's little corner on the Internet where he muses on life, phpBB (PHP Bulletin Board), (X)HTML, CSS, Web Standards, Science, Technology and whatever miscellaneous stuff that takes his fancy. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:00:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=X.Y-svn-lambcutlet Comment on My sturdy old Pentium-3 dually for sale! by: Jonathan Stanley http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/05/26/my-sturdy-old-pentium-3-dually-for-sale/#comment-153 Mon, 30 May 2005 22:27:37 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/05/26/my-sturdy-old-pentium-3-dually-for-sale/#comment-153 Why would one have to be rich to own an SMP system? The motherboards are only a little more than their single CPU counterparts and the fact you need 2 CPUs is easily accounted for by not buying whatever top-end CPU is at the time, as the lower end ones clocked say 20% lower, will be often as much as 50% cheaper. The ability for a computer to do useful work isn't always best measured by their clockspeed and for users whom even vaguely multitask, will see why SMP is lovely once they've tried it. ;) Why would one have to be rich to own an SMP system? The motherboards are only a little more than their single CPU counterparts and the fact you need 2 CPUs is easily accounted for by not buying whatever top-end CPU is at the time, as the lower end ones clocked say 20% lower, will be often as much as 50% cheaper.

The ability for a computer to do useful work isn’t always best measured by their clockspeed and for users whom even vaguely multitask, will see why SMP is lovely once they’ve tried it. ;)

]]> Comment on My sturdy old Pentium-3 dually for sale! by: Justin http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/05/26/my-sturdy-old-pentium-3-dually-for-sale/#comment-152 Mon, 30 May 2005 22:15:41 +0000 http://lambcutlet.org/blog/2005/05/26/my-sturdy-old-pentium-3-dually-for-sale/#comment-152 Wow, you own an SMP system! Are you rich or something? I don't know anyone who uses SMP for personal use... Wow, you own an SMP system! Are you rich or something?

I don’t know anyone who uses SMP for personal use…

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