Topic: Some Informational Polls....

[FireSoul]

You should ask how many people use laptops or desktops..
.. or how many people have a LAN at home (or wireless for that manner)..
.. or the size of the monitor..  
or if it's an LCD monitor or not..
etc..

[Maxillius]

Main system:  
HP 725n

AMD Athlon 2400+ (2 GHz)
nVidia Geforce 4 MX w/ 64 MB video RAM
512 MB system RAM (windows thinks it only has 442 )
Win XP Home OS
56k Dialup (actual speed tops out at 46.6k)

Secondary system:
Compaq 5000 series

Intel Celeron 600MHz
Intel Integrated video (shares system RAM)
256 MB system RAM
Win Me OS
internet via LAN (simple ethernet) through main machine

gaming system (at g/f's house):
HP 4455

Intel Celeron 400MHz (Win98 thought it was a Pentium II MMX )
ATI Rage Pro 2X video (integrated, shares system RAM)
256 MB system RAM
Win XP Home OS
PARTIALLY FUNCTIONAL


the polls weren't working for me, hope this is good enough

[CmdrK]

Just a bump

[Sirgod]

you know instead of all of these Polls, It might be better to just have everyone run a belarc , on the systems they want too share.

 It would Probably cause you abit more time seperating the systems, But at least You would get a better Spectra of PC's.

Stephen

[CFA_Admiral_Tige]

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To add a bit to your data

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION="http://forums.taldren.com/ubbthreads/dopoll.php"><INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="pollname" VALUE="1073758802IKV Nemesis D7L">
<p>How many CPUs does your system have?
<input type="radio" name="option" value="1" />1
<input type="radio" name="option" value="2" />2
<input type="radio" name="option" value="3" />More than 2
<input type="radio" name="option" value="4" />I don't know
<INPUT TYPE=Submit NAME=Submit VALUE="Submit vote" class="buttons"></form>    

I would like to point out that games will ONLY USE 1 PROCESSOR UNLESS SPECIFICALLY WRITTEN TO USE MORE!!!

Tiger  

[E_Look]

Do unused, "retired", obsolete computers in your basement count??

[CFA_Admiral_Tige]

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Do unused, "retired", obsolete computers in your basement count??  

Depends..if you use it to play SFCII then yep..otherwise I could care less lol  

Tiger  

[IKV Nemesis D7L]

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I would like to point out that games will ONLY USE 1 PROCESSOR UNLESS SPECIFICALLY WRITTEN TO USE MORE!!!

Tiger    

True.  But then again the other programs you may have running don't slow you down as much because they can run on the other CPU.  For example your firewall, comms program etc.  Not to mention that most crashes that lock up a single CPU computer can be handled without rebooting because the OS using the other CPU can stop the program that has locked one CPU up tight.  So dual CPUs do help even with programs not optimized for them.  

Also as games programers adapt to the P4s hyper threading the extra threads can be run on the 2nd CPU and or the hyperthreading module or both depending on how many threads they add.  

[The_Joker]

I might also point out that clock speed doesn't really mean as much as it used to, when comparing Athlon XP's with Pentium 4's.  

[CFA_Admiral_Tige]

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I might also point out that clock speed doesn't really mean as much as it used to, when comparing Athlon XP's with Pentium 4's.  

I disagree....espically when a 2GHz Athlon XP can kick the snot out of a 3GHz P4

Tiger