today i just purchased online, a dual intel Xeon motherboard that supports unbuffered RAM, 2 Xeon 3.06 Ghz processors with hyperthreading/512 cache, and have amounted a total of 2 Gigs of DDR 2100 RAM.
this will complement a 256 Meg NVIDIA Geforce video card, 3 hard drives for a total of 200 Gigs, 5.1 surround sound, video capture card, DVD writer, and 11 USB 2 ports. what am i going to do with it all? mwaahhahahahahaha.
seriously, my question is, how will PB handle with 2 processors? are there any functions possible in PB to allocate tasks or threads to a specific processor? and with the hyperthreading, a single processor is "supposed" to act like a dual, so with 2 HT processors, will they act like 3 or 4 processors? can i use the hyperthreading from PB at all?
my new workstation
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localmotion34
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my new workstation
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!.WHILE status != dwPassedOut
! Invoke AllocateDrink, dwBeerAmount
!MOV Mug, Beer
!Invoke Drink, Mug, dwBeerAmount
!.endw
8O 8O
are you going to use that as a workstation? :roll:
(super overkill!)
are you going to use that as a workstation? :roll:
(super overkill!)
AMD Athlon XP2400, 512 MB RAM, Hercules 3D Prophet 9600 256MB RAM, WinXP
PIII 800MHz, 320 MB RAM, Nvidia Riva Tnt 2 Mach 64 (32MB), WinXP + Linux
17" iMac, 1.8 GHz G5, 512 MB DDR-RAM, 80 GB HD, 64 MB Geforce FX 5200, SuperDrive, OSX
Re: my new workstation
I think it depends from what Operating System you are using, but i'm not sure. :roll:localmotion34 wrote:seriously, my question is, how will PB handle with 2 processors? are there any functions possible in PB to allocate tasks or threads to a specific processor? and with the hyperthreading, a single processor is "supposed" to act like a dual, so with 2 HT processors, will they act like 3 or 4 processors? can i use the hyperthreading from PB at all?
Maybe Fred can help you on that.
If you are using WindowsXP it will detect 4 processors on your board.
Threads are seperatet on the CPUs by the OS. That means, if you create threads in your code you automatically use more then one processor. If not, you will get the power of one physical processor on 50% maximum CPU usage shown in the taskmanager.
That is what I see in my Taskmanager if I'm not using threads.
Mike
Threads are seperatet on the CPUs by the OS. That means, if you create threads in your code you automatically use more then one processor. If not, you will get the power of one physical processor on 50% maximum CPU usage shown in the taskmanager.
That is what I see in my Taskmanager if I'm not using threads.
Mike
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Re: my new workstation
Braggart!!!localmotion34 wrote:today i just purchased online, a dual intel Xeon motherboard that supports unbuffered RAM, 2 Xeon 3.06 Ghz processors with hyperthreading/512 cache, and have amounted a total of 2 Gigs of DDR 2100 RAM. <snip>
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localmotion34
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oh and by the way, i renewed my PB license yesterday too. the old NIH grant i was on ran out last week, so i had to get a new one. the link for where i purchased my motherboard and processors is
http://www.monarchcomputer.com
good prices, but they are REALLY tough about credit cards, wanting the customer service phone # from your CC, and they verify the shipping and billing address by the US postal inspectors i think. its been an ordeal just to get it ordered.
my next task: dual AMD 64 bit 2.8 Ghz opteron processors with 1 mb cache, 16 gigs of registered RAM, the up and coming 512 meg NVIDIA video card, 3 200 Gig hard drives, and a 6.1 surround sound card. [/url]
http://www.monarchcomputer.com
good prices, but they are REALLY tough about credit cards, wanting the customer service phone # from your CC, and they verify the shipping and billing address by the US postal inspectors i think. its been an ordeal just to get it ordered.
my next task: dual AMD 64 bit 2.8 Ghz opteron processors with 1 mb cache, 16 gigs of registered RAM, the up and coming 512 meg NVIDIA video card, 3 200 Gig hard drives, and a 6.1 surround sound card. [/url]
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!.WHILE status != dwPassedOut
! Invoke AllocateDrink, dwBeerAmount
!MOV Mug, Beer
!Invoke Drink, Mug, dwBeerAmount
!.endw
