Dual processor system

Computer Forum CPU, Motherboards and Memory
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Hello
I am using Celeron 2.4 GHz 533 Bus and D845GVSR with 1 GB of DDR Ram and 80 GB Baracuda HDD

i have an oportunity the dell branded system PIII 933 * 2 Processors and 512 MB of ram (Dell Poweredge)

can any one tell me whichh none system is best for multitasking amn multimedia applications

Thanks

Siraj

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I think you’re better off with your current Celeron system. A lot of applications still don’t fully utilise parallel processing, so with msot tasks you’ll experience PIII 933 speeds while the other CPU will be more or less idle. Also more RAM and newer HD will give it the advantage.

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I’d try both out, if you have the opportunity, and see which one suits you better. The emperical data would lean toward the Celeron having the advantage, but that depends on how hard you run certain apps and probably has the better upgrade path (unless you can run the Tualtin-core Pentium 3’s–the 1.2GHz with 512kB L2 cache or the 1.4GHz).