Re: Dual-Core Xeon vs 2 seperate Xeon on Motherboard

* stoppal@xxxxxxxxxxx:

I heard that it's actually better to get 2 single core Xeons b/c to get
the speed out of one dual-core you need the software written for it,
and currently there is not much available. What are your thoughts?

That's BS. Software can't distinguish if it's running on dual core or on dual cpu. The distribution of the processing load is job of the operating system. If software is not multithreaded it never ever will make use of multiple cpus or cores.

Benjamin
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