[plug] SCSI and Dual CPU's ...

[marks at fs.com.au]

Trevor Phillips wrote:

> Oliver White wrote:
> >
> > What are you planning to run on this beast? Having upgraded my P133 from
> > 32MB to 64MB, I couldn't justify spending money to upgrade it
> > further. Running X/Navigator/irssi/GNOME/WM and an xterm or two, I find
> > everything running very smoothly. Then again, as a student with little
> > cash, I probably have a different perspective. What does the 400+MHz crowd
> > think of this view?
>
> What am I planning to run? Quake3Arena, Half-Life/TFC, etc, etc, etc ...
> Yeah, I'm a Games Addict. ^_^ My current P200 is sufficing for
> work-related things, but it's falling a bit behind in the games. Plus,
> it doesn't hurt to have extra speed for things like compiling; it's just
> not as time-critical as things like action games.

You've read that John Carmack has released a SMP  (well, dual processor)
version of the q3test?? somewhere from 20% to 90% speed increase in the game -
and that's on his (and I quote) "low end dual pII 400" :)

> And after the upgrade, I can give the P75 Linux Gateway back to work and
> make the P200 the server. ^_^

Mmmmm, server...


Mark