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The benefits of a dual CPU setup are dependent on many factors.
You look at benchmarks of "dual processor" enabled applications, you see marginal gains at best. DP is usually best suited for high end workstations.
Or, if youre doing some serious multitasking. One thing you do have to put in mind is that currently it's difficult to divy up a single set of instructions between two processors (hyperthreading theoretically will alleviate some of that IIRC...) But if youre running a lot of apps at once, you will see a decent boost.
That said, you're likely better off buying 1 really fast CPU. I'd reccomend either a 2000+ Athlon XP with DDR Ram, or a P4 2.0A with DDR (Actually can be found cheaper than the regular P4 2.0.)
Or, just wait till hammer at the end of the year when the world of Computing will end.
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