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PurpleYouko:
Actually I take that back to some degree.
You can get a P4 that fast (if you are running a Dell at least) I am in actual fact running a 3.2 Ghz P4 myself right now. :redface:
I just checked.
It is just that most motherboard manufacturers don't support P4s any more.
The Sempron and Athlon processors are designed to run on a motherboard with two memory channels which allow the processor to work in "dual" mode so that it actually processes at twice the nominal speed.
EricL:
Yup, mine's a Dell. I just bought at the knee in the price curve a few weeks ago. I covetted one of the dual core machines, DB will parallel wonderfully I imagine, if architected right, but such machines are still on the other side of the knee for me...
PurpleYouko:
I just bought a Compaq Pressario with a Sempron 3200++ processor for my son at Christmas.
It was the cheapest PC anywhere in town. $438 at walmart complete with a 17 inch flat screen monitor.
It only came with 256Mb of RAM but the chipset and motherboard are set up so that if you put two memory cards of equal size into two different memory slots then it will go into dual processing mode.
The strange thing is that when we look in the system settings it only shows the processor running at 1.8 Ghz. need to get the memory upgraded and see what happens. It can hold 4 1gig memory cards
Numsgil:
DB should be a program that could parallel quite well, but I have no idea if the code is set up right for it. Would be interesting to find out what you might need to do. Maybe add some threads in the engine.
shvarz:
--- Quote ---The strange thing is that when we look in the system settings it only shows the processor running at 1.8 Ghz
--- End quote ---
That's because in the last couple of years both AMD and Intel switched to the scoring system which measures "performance". The 3200 refers to that performance measurement, not to GHz. Your processor is supposed to run at 1.8 GHz. What they are saying is that if you took the processors as they were a couple of years ago and run them at 3.2 GHz, they would be as good as today's processors running at 1.8 GHz, because modern processors have a better architecture.
The way I see it is that this is a load of bullshit designed to lure customers to buy newer systems.
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