Which would you put on top? Would you buy a dual P933 system over a single processor P4 (say the new 1.3 GHz P4)? Let’s assume, for the sake of arguement, that all other things are equal other than the processors (and obviously the motherboard).
Other hardware would be:
256 Mb RAM
Soundblaster Platinum
All-In-Wonder Video 32M
CD-RW (10x-10x-24x ?)
48x CD-ROM
Adaptec SCSII card (4940?)
10-100 Netword Card
30G Western Digital HD 7200
Applications intended to run:
Dual boot: Windows 2000 Prof., Windows 98 2nd Edition
Development Utilities such as MS Development Suite.
3Dgames such as Quake and that genre.
Oracle8i and MS SQL Server.
MS OFfice.
Video Editing Software.
Audio Editing Software.
Web Development Software (most likely Frontpage 2000).
Image Editing and Animating Software.
Sun’s JDK
So voice up! There is a broad range of software being run here. The benchmarks I have seen usually pit equal processors against each other, like an Athlon vs. a Pentium. But what are the opinions when it’s dual with two slightly weaker processors vs the top of the line?