http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=2075&p=5

Think three of these puppies fully loaded with RAM using system link might
make a nice Menudo rig?

:O)

"Animix" wrote in message
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http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=2075&p=5

Think three of these puppies fully loaded with RAM using system link might
make a nice Menudo rig?

Some people I've talked to have received degraded performance by going with
dual CPUs. Maybe recording is not something that benefits from this approach
(in a single machine that is).

"Animix" wrote in message
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http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=2075&p=5

Think three of these puppies fully loaded with RAM using system link might
make a nice Menudo rig?

Some people I've talked to have received degraded performance by going with
dual CPUs. Maybe recording is not something that benefits from this approach
(in a single machine that is).

Animix wrote:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=2075&p=5

Think three of these puppies fully loaded with RAM using system link might
make a nice Menudo rig?

There are surely some exceptions, but most software that's designed
to work with more than one CPU will work with any number of CPUs.

So, I've certainly never tried it, but I wouldn't be surprised
if most or all of the software works fine on a 4-way system.

On a side note, I saw the "Click to enlarge" caption on the photo
in that article, and I think it was the first time I ever saw one
of those captions and thought, "Man, I don't *want* to enlarge it.
That thing is way too big already."

- Logan

Animix wrote:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=2075&p=5

Think three of these puppies fully loaded with RAM using system link might
make a nice Menudo rig?

There are surely some exceptions, but most software that's designed
to work with more than one CPU will work with any number of CPUs.

So, I've certainly never tried it, but I wouldn't be surprised
if most or all of the software works fine on a 4-way system.

On a side note, I saw the "Click to enlarge" caption on the photo
in that article, and I think it was the first time I ever saw one
of those captions and thought, "Man, I don't *want* to enlarge it.
That thing is way too big already."

- Logan

"Logan Shaw" wrote in message
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Animix wrote:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=2075&p=5

Think three of these puppies fully loaded with RAM using system link
might
make a nice Menudo rig?

There are surely some exceptions, but most software that's designed
to work with more than one CPU will work with any number of CPUs.

So, I've certainly never tried it, but I wouldn't be surprised
if most or all of the software works fine on a 4-way system.

On a side note, I saw the "Click to enlarge" caption on the photo
in that article, and I think it was the first time I ever saw one
of those captions and thought, "Man, I don't *want* to enlarge it.
That thing is way too big already."

That's funny, it didn't look all THAT huge to me. What resolution do you
have your monitor at? I actually did click it to make it bigger, it makes
it easier to see all the details. YMMV, I guess....

Oh, BTW, I guess I should mention that I'm running 1024 X 768 on a 20"
monitor.

Kendall


- Logan

"Logan Shaw" wrote in message
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Animix wrote:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=2075&p=5

Think three of these puppies fully loaded with RAM using system link
might
make a nice Menudo rig?

There are surely some exceptions, but most software that's designed
to work with more than one CPU will work with any number of CPUs.

So, I've certainly never tried it, but I wouldn't be surprised
if most or all of the software works fine on a 4-way system.

On a side note, I saw the "Click to enlarge" caption on the photo
in that article, and I think it was the first time I ever saw one
of those captions and thought, "Man, I don't *want* to enlarge it.
That thing is way too big already."

That's funny, it didn't look all THAT huge to me. What resolution do you
have your monitor at? I actually did click it to make it bigger, it makes
it easier to see all the details. YMMV, I guess....

Oh, BTW, I guess I should mention that I'm running 1024 X 768 on a 20"
monitor.

Kendall


- Logan

Kendall wrote:
On a side note, I saw the "Click to enlarge" caption on the photo
in that article, and I think it was the first time I ever saw one
of those captions and thought, "Man, I don't *want* to enlarge it.
That thing is way too big already."

That's funny, it didn't look all THAT huge to me. What resolution do you
have your monitor at? I actually did click it to make it bigger, it makes
it easier to see all the details. YMMV, I guess....

I was talking about the motherboard looking large, not the photo of
the motherboard. As someone who just installed a motherboard in a
case a week or two ago and who was rooting around inside another
two cases quite recently, the prospect of trying to fit that giant
quad cpu monstrosity of a motherboard into any kind of case and wire
everything up is not a pleasant thought.

- Logan

Kendall wrote:
On a side note, I saw the "Click to enlarge" caption on the photo
in that article, and I think it was the first time I ever saw one
of those captions and thought, "Man, I don't *want* to enlarge it.
That thing is way too big already."

That's funny, it didn't look all THAT huge to me. What resolution do you
have your monitor at? I actually did click it to make it bigger, it makes
it easier to see all the details. YMMV, I guess....

I was talking about the motherboard looking large, not the photo of
the motherboard. As someone who just installed a motherboard in a
case a week or two ago and who was rooting around inside another
two cases quite recently, the prospect of trying to fit that giant
quad cpu monstrosity of a motherboard into any kind of case and wire
everything up is not a pleasant thought.

- Logan

"Logan Shaw" wrote in message
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Kendall wrote:
On a side note, I saw the "Click to enlarge" caption on the photo
in that article, and I think it was the first time I ever saw one
of those captions and thought, "Man, I don't *want* to enlarge it.
That thing is way too big already."

That's funny, it didn't look all THAT huge to me. What resolution do
you
have your monitor at? I actually did click it to make it bigger, it
makes
it easier to see all the details. YMMV, I guess....

I was talking about the motherboard looking large, not the photo of
the motherboard. As someone who just installed a motherboard in a
case a week or two ago and who was rooting around inside another
two cases quite recently, the prospect of trying to fit that giant
quad cpu monstrosity of a motherboard into any kind of case and wire
everything up is not a pleasant thought.

Ahhh.... That makes it much clearer. I suppose you would just get a
really big case for it. I went against the trend when I put together this
computer and looked for the biggest tower I could find, just to make sure
there was PLENTY of room inside. For the other computer in the house, I got
a much smaller tower, and it was harder to get everything in and wired, even
though they currently both have the same mobo and general layout.

Kendall


- Logan

Animix wrote:

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=2075&p=5

Think three of these puppies fully loaded with RAM using system link might
make a nice Menudo rig?

I don't seem to recall the workstation version of Microsofts's OS's
offering more than dual processor support, you might have to use a
server OS to get quad processor support. Some years ago Arny mentioned
something about ... hmm ... I think it was realtime cross-over filtering
using CEP on a quad cpu machine.

:O)

Strictly speaking the reply is no because of the lack of quad CPU
support in the workstation OS (somebody will tell you if I was wrong
about this).

Any decently programmed multithreaded application will benefit from
having the threads distributed over multiple cpu's, but not all
programmers bother to read about good programming style nor implement
it.


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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Peter Larsen wrote:
Animix wrote:


http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.html?i=2075&p=5



Think three of these puppies fully loaded with RAM using system link might
make a nice Menudo rig?

I have an ASUS PC/DL (dual) w/ 2.4 ghz Xeons and it runs Cubase just
fine. I just checked and in "Device Setup- VST Multtrack- Expert" it
the check box does say "multiprocessing" and not "Dual Proccessor
Support" so the sky might just be the limit. One thing though, after
anxiously waiting for SX 2.0 and its promised support of hyperthreading,
I found nothing but the land of the "Blue Screen Of Death"... a barren
and rocky place where my seed could find no purchase. But since I've
still got plenty of headroom (I can play 4000+ tracks whle still
sequencing the genome of "Urkle" from "Family Matters") I'm finding it
hard to be dissatisfied.

TRY IT!!! (Go big or go home)


Peace,

KD

kanedavis wrote:

I have an ASUS PC/DL (dual) w/ 2.4 ghz Xeons and it runs Cubase
just fine. I just checked and in "Device Setup- VST Multtrack-
Expert" it the check box does say "multiprocessing" and not "Dual
Proccessor Support" so the sky might just be the limit.

As I recall this twin cpu's is the limit for the workstation windows os,
or rather its hal (hardware abstraction layer). The server hal may be
required, and I would expect the server OS to be required for it to
work. I may be wrong on some of this.

KD


Kind regards

Peter Larsen

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* My site is at: http://www.muyiovatki.dk *
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