Xeon Gaming Machine?

Would it be better for me to build a dual 2.8Ghz 800fsb Xeon gaming machine
or a high end P4 3.2Ghz machine?
I've heard that the dual CPU may not make a difference if the game doesn't
support dual CPU's.

Troy

"Troy" wrote in message
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" I've heard that the dual CPU may not make a difference if the game
doesn't support dual CPU's. "


Very few games natively support SMP for the end-user, with only the server
consoles likely to take advantage of the technology. An SMP-aware OS like
Windows XP Pro can assign the game to one CPU, with all other background
tasks running on the second CPU. You're not going to get any massive
performance advantage from this, unless you always have CPU-intensive
programs running in the background while you play.

For the same money as a dual-Xeon system, you can get a socket 939 Athlon64,
an SLI motherboard and two GeForce 6800 series cards. This will give better
performance than the Xeons, as more games will take advantage of SLI than
SMP.

Much appreciated! I'll stick to the single CPU system.
Troy

"Cuzman" wrote in message
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"Troy" wrote in message
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" I've heard that the dual CPU may not make a difference if the game
doesn't support dual CPU's. "


Very few games natively support SMP for the end-user, with only the server
consoles likely to take advantage of the technology. An SMP-aware OS like
Windows XP Pro can assign the game to one CPU, with all other background
tasks running on the second CPU. You're not going to get any massive
performance advantage from this, unless you always have CPU-intensive
programs running in the background while you play.

For the same money as a dual-Xeon system, you can get a socket 939
Athlon64,
an SLI motherboard and two GeForce 6800 series cards. This will give
better
performance than the Xeons, as more games will take advantage of SLI than
SMP.