| mike.h on Sun, 8 Jun 2003 12:38:20 -0400 |
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On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 11:02, Beldon Dominello wrote: > > I have a chance to buy a pretty solid dual PII 1GHz workstation that I intend <snip> On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 11:49, Kevin Brosius wrote: > That's a good question... Generally, the consensus seems to be that > 1-1, a single CPU box has more overall horsepower. So in your case, a > single 2Ghz box is generally more powerful than a dual 1Ghz box. But > that's a simple generalization. The first question to ask is, do any of > your sound editing tools support multi-threading? If not, then I'd go > for the single cpu box. <snip> > unless you were sure that the apps you want to use support multi-threading. <snip> Note: Multi-treading and multi-processing are NOT the same thing. To get any use of dual processors, your kernel must be built for it. Out of the box Linux distros are not, so you'll have to compile a kernel. Application support for multi-threading will not make a difference in and of itself. In other respects, I'd tend to agree with Kevin: front side bus speed could be more important than number of processors, especially if your apps are i/o bound rather than cpu bound. -- -mike.h _________________ mike.h@acm.org mike.h@stemik.com __________________________________________ Democracy is the worst form of government; except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. -Winston Churchill __________________________________________ GnuPG public key: http://www.stemik.com/~mike.h/mike.h.asc Attachment:
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