Athalon 700 OR Dual PIII 450?

[RTC]

I can upgrade my current system to either an Athlon 700 or a Dual PIII 450 for about the same price. The question is which will be best.

I know I'll need Win2k on the Dual system (I've been running it for a while anyway) but which will give the pest games performance? and which will be best all round?

Si.

[This message has been edited by RTC (edited 11-05-2000).]

[EFA_KITCHIT]

i have to say to you what type of villial do you like , games i think dont need duel , win2k works with em err go BIG BIG IF I WAS YOU GO FOR K7, that just me ,just me m8 k

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[JGJones]

Q3A is the only game that can use dual CPUs to do the work as it is multi-threaded. There are no other games that can utlise dual CPUs so for gaming I'll go with the Athlon.

Oh and for Windows 2000, I really do recommend 256Mb RAM (if you dont have that much that is)

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[TrickyRIC]

Generally speaking a duel processor box will have around a 30% performance increase on the single processor when running NT & multiple apps. As JG says, you need multiprocessor apps to get any gain, games tend not to fall in this category. Other bits & pieces of the OS will run on the other processor if you are running a game, for example explorer and antivirus.
Big single will be better. Big duel better still......