Greetings, The XP and MP lines are drastically different architectures, although they use the same core.
The MP in Athlon MP means Multi-processing and it is a server chip from start to finish, hence its higher price tag. If you aren't doing any server specific things that require SMP processing than don't bother. Besides, with as powerful as the XP chip is, and that you might have two of them, I'd be surprised if you could do enough work to really make them break a sweat. Please do a google search on Athlon MP for more information (anandtech, tom's hardware, ars-technica). Just my .02 RandyW -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of christopher j bottaro Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: athlon xp vs. athlon mp (ot...kinda) hello, sorry this is kinda off topic, but this mailing list has tons of smart people who's opinions i can benefit from. i decided that i want a dual cpu system. i'm kinda interested in parallel/distributed programming. my friends have donated their old computers and i now have a 5 node linux cluster (just old cheap 500 mhz p3's). thats fun to play around with for distributed stuffs, but now i want a dual cpu system to play around with shared memory parallel programming. so now down to the question. whats the difference between a dual athlon xp system and a dual athlon mp system besides a >huge< price difference? the dual mp motherboards are twice as expensive...as are the athlon mp processors. again, i'm not doing any major server stuff that requires top of the line performance. i just want something to play around with (that will be stable of course)...and maybe something i can encode a divx on while at the same time compiling kde...;) also, how supported is this kinda stuff in the linux kernel in redhat 8.0? does xp vs. mp make a difference to the linux kernel? thanks for the info, -- christopher -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
