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- >In-Reply-To: <9603292245.AA41456@huey.cadvision.com>
- >> I have the option of switching NT workstation computers from a NEC P100
- >> to a
- >> No-name dual P90. Assuming hard drive and graphics card and ram are the
- >> same, will I see any real improvement in Lightwave? Can LW make use of
- >> dual
- >> processors under NT?
- > The only way Lightwave can exploit dual processors is to run *two*
- >copies of the Screamernet node. This means that theoretically the max
- >performance is twice that of a P90. However this will occur only if both
- >machines have an ideal about of available Ram - otherwise both CPUs will
- >need to hit virtual memory - which in a dual processor machine is made
- >doubly worse by having only one disk to page to.
- >Such a machine would ideally need 64Megs of ram.
-
- Maby sombody here would know? I am considering the purchase of two systems.
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- System1:
- Triton chipset Pentium 200 with 512K of Pipeline burst cache
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- System2:
- Dual Pentium 166 with 512K of Async<sp>cache
-
- Both systems will be running NT 4.0 when it is out and LW 5.0 when shipped.
- Which machine will go faster and by how much. Logic would say the dual but
- what about caching how much would pipelined burst make a difference?
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- Thanks
- Scott
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