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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?

8O 8O

are you going to use that as a workstation? :roll:

(super overkill!)

as far as i know that there is a way to set a process's(and threads) CPU.
unfortunally i have a 1-cpu system

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?

I think it depends from what Operating System you are using, but i'm not sure. :roll:

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

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>

Braggart!!!

Would you mind purchasing another one? I'd be happy to give you my address

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]

Don't you mean 7.1 sound?

I am waiting for dual PCI express 512 MB 6800 or x800 class video cards and a decent dual Opteron motherboard to support them...