I find that for heavy numerical work, our DELL Precision 530's preloaded with RH7.2 work great - dual 2Ghz Intel. I think what sets them apart is the dual channel memory bus, so large arrays of data are moved pretty quick. Tom's Hardware did a test of the dual Athlons, and wasn't to impressed with the initial performance. So if you can afford it...
Jonathan Klay PMEL OERD Sys. Admin. > > > On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Massimo Alonzo wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I need to buy a new pc and I'll use it for heavy numerical simulations, so > > I'd like to use dual processors motherboars. > > > > I know that I can do this with Linux but I don't know which solution, > > between the following, gives better performances: > > > > > > * 2 AMD Athlon XP 1900+ > > * 2 Intel 2GHz processors > > > > > > I don't remember where but I red that AMD processors are not yet fully > > working (I don't think this is true !). > > > > > > What do you suggest, which motherboard (Abit or Asus)? > > > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Massimo Alonzo > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
