Two Pentium III 500s do not equal the performance of a 1 gigahertz
processor. Dual Processors in a Windows NT4 or 2000 PC make use of about 75
percent of the combined processor speed. A dual processor BSD Unix machine
would come closer to using the full 100 percent of a dual processor system
but the single gigahertz would still be the winner.

Mark Rode
The NoSpin Group


>I am currently running a Win 98 on a Pentium III 500 system with 224mb of
>RAM. I was thinking of upgrading my system with the tyan tiger 1834D
>mainboard and running dual Pentium III 500 cpu's. I know I will have to
>upgrade to Win 2000 in order to take full advantage of dual processing.
>The reason I was thinking of going dual is because of the cost of
>upgrading to a single 1 gigahertz processor.
>If anyone has any thoughts, suggestions, comments on this method of
>upgrading, I would appreciate hearing from you. If you currently run dual
>processors, I am interested in knowing the speed boost you feel vs your
>last single processor machine.
>Thanks to anyone that responds.

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