Hello, been a while, dual CPU mobos

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

> I'm thinking, once again, of easing myself into some hardware upgrades
> for home. In particular, I want to pick up an SMP system or 2. I'm not
> a gamer, so wicked graphics performance isn't a huge concern as long
> as I can do 1280x1024 in 24 bit colour. Don't need a whole lot of HDD
> space (40GB would be fine) and 512MB should be enough for
> memory. Hell, all I really need is a barebone system with MB, CPUs and
> maybe memory (since all I got now is SDRAM).

This begs the question of what you expect your actual performance
bottlenecks to be.

If you're not doing "wicked graphics," then I wouldn't expect CPU load
to be high on the list.

For the $400-odd premium you'd pay for an SMP motherboard and CPU, I'd
expect you could upgrade to SCSI disk, or to have a couple GB of RAM,
both of which commonly give better boosts than an extra CPU.

I would find it very surprising for you to need only pedestrian disk and
memory but find "premium" CPU hardware of use...
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