SMP support? ( DUAL CPU)

(corvey) #1

I sure hope they include SMP support with this game. Quake 4 has now added SMP ability, and I sure hope the ET-QW follows the bandwagon.

Anybody know if this will be included when it comes out?

(Nail) #2

asked here

(B0rsuk) #3

By the way, it’s dual core, not dual CPU. One CPU, two cores.

(Salteh) #4

Symmetric Multiprocessing, or SMP, is a multiprocessor computer architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single shared main memory. Most common multiprocessor systems today use an SMP architecture.

(ParanoiD) #5

Yeah most just have dualcore these days, but dualcore is nothing else than 2 cpu’s on one die. Altough the Core Duo is different because of single L2 cache shared by the 2 cores.

(corvey) #6

Does this look like DUALCORE TO YOU? DO YOU REALLY THINK I AM IGNORANT ENOUGH TO NOT KNOW WHAT KIND OF HARDWARE I HAVE IN MY OWN MACHINE?

BTW… If you said yes to any of these questions, then you are the ignorant son of a bitch not me.

(Sauron|EFG) #7

Easy tiger… :eek:

(ParanoiD) #8

Isnt that the fan of your northbridge? :moo:

Its more that everyone is like dualcore as most ppl just buy a dualcore proc now, so most of these questions are related to ask if their dualcore cpu will be supported. Ofcourse there are some ppl with older systems with 2 CPU’s ore more, but in most cases its just dualcore. So were just talking about dualcore support as thats more common now instead of dual CPU.

(Salteh) #9

I think Corvey’s “RAH RAH RAH KILL DIE DESTROY RAH RAH RAH” stuff was in reply to Borsuk’s “dual cpu doesn’t exist - it’s dual-core f00!” type message, not yours ParanoiD :banana:

RAH RAH RAH JAWOHL NEIN EXPLODE RAH RAH! :moo:

(corvey) #10

Ignorance is bliss

DING! DING! DING! DING! We have a winner! :clap:

(Sauron|EFG) #11

Ignorance is bliss
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Humour is futile. :moo:

(corvey) #12

Philosophy with a grain of salt. :moo:

(Sauron|EFG) #13

So why do you have two fans on your northbridge? :nag:

(digibob) #14

To make it run faster, duh.

(corvey) #15

There isn’t a fan on the northbridge, the cpu fan exhaust cool the heatsink on the chipset.

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Here’s my tower of power.

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(Salteh) #16

Well done spoofehSauron :wink:

Corvey your hdds appear to have fallen out while trying to make their way to freedom!

!!!

(corvey) #17

If you look closely, you can see a leg as it’s making a run for it!

(Nail) #18

just a guess, but I don’t think wiring is something you do for a living

(corvey) #19

You think that’s a mess, you should see the excess hardware and wires I have in storage!

Actually, it use to be neat. It gets kinda hairy changing stuff. Saving up for PCI-X RAID 5 controller and sata II drives. That dual xeon is going to be my terrabyte application server. It’s the one machine that hopefully will be around a LOOONG time 10, 20, 30+ years :slight_smile: I will of course have to renew my game machine every couple of years to keep up. But the data server will be a FOSSIL!

(kamikazee) #20

I would be surprised to see that happening…
I guess the oldest computer I have known to survive 10+ years was an IBM mainframe which just costed too much to get rid of. (It was ditched only a few months ago)

Of course, we have the fact that processors will probably go to SMP and all sorts of parallel stuff instead of only having 1 CPU with 1 core. That way, your dataserver could still survive as long as it can handle the bandwidth. (Who knows at what speeds data can be transfered later on?)