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<DIV>This isn't my opinion (as I don't know enough to have one) but one of my
friends strongly dislikes the chipsets for dual Athlons. His opinion may be a
bit biased, as his multi-proc boxes are servers, not number crunchers, but
that's what he's said. His preference is for ServerWorks or Intel chipsets with
Intel processors. There are some numbers here: <A
href="http://www.scientificweb.de/mathstef3.html">http://www.scientificweb.de/mathstef3.html</A> with
benchmarks for various tests, but it doesn't look like too many dual-proc
configurations are tested there. This site: <A
href="http://www.2cpu.com">http://www.2cpu.com</A> may prove to have some
better resources for you, as well as more current/relevant benchmarks.</DIV>
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<DIV>As for the processor itself, I've only heard that the MP is essentially the
same as an XP, just "guaranteed" by AMD to work in a multi-processor
setting.</DIV>
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<DIV>I've also heard there were issues with Tyan's first dual-MP mobo, but I
would imagine those issues could be attributed to being bleeding-edge and would
be resolved by now.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>my $0.02. Hope they help.</DIV>
<DIV>-John</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>>>> lxy@cloudnet.com 10/29/02 10:27AM >>><BR>I'm
building an uber-number crunching box for a guy. He wants the best
in<BR>everything, so naturaly I recomended an Athlon MP machine. he had a
few<BR>choice words to say about the dual MPs, and wanted a single
Athlon<BR>instead. He wouldn't tell me WHY, other than "I've heard
things".<BR><BR>Is Athlon MP a good choice? Are there weird issues under
various<BR>OS's? (this box will be running dual
Win2K/Linux).<BR><BR>-Brian<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Twin
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