Its nice to see people getting the word out on duallies but get the message right. About 5 months ago I went from a p3 1000E@1240mhz on a bx board (abit bx6 2) to dual p3 1000EB's at 1125mhz (abit vp6).

The benchmarks you used would have shown my old system as being faster accross the board. Benchmarking duallies against single cpu machines just doesnt work. The dually might gain a slight advantage in smp enabled prgrams but what it does best is multi tasking.

Try having over 10 browser windows open, running psp7, photoshop 6, mirc, trillian, media player 8, two folding @home clients.

Phil,

That is exactly what SYSmark2002 does, among other things, running multiple programs at the same time. Please refrain from posting such comments if you obviously haven't got a clue what the benchmarks we used do or don't do.

Kind regards,

Sander,

Methinks you were a little heavy-handed with that last remark. Phil's point - and mine - is that CPU speed alone is only half the story. True, if gaming is your bag then dualling is not for you. However, for workstation and server use, dual CPUs work well.

Your own web server is a duallie!

Prang