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Never seen Gotcha, but if it can't use multiple threads then Dual CPU probably won't make it run faster, it will just let you do other things on the PC whilst that is running.
Getting more RAM will always help, especially when you are dealing with big files, the less paging to the Hard Disk the better, ECC will make no difference, so unless you motherboard has to have that just get standard, you could try 2 sticks of 512Mb (I assume you have an NT O/S? XP or 2000). Incidentally P3's are SDRAM as far as I remember, not sure if they ever went to DDR, even early P4 boards are SDRAM and RIMM.
Only know one person that had a Dual P3 and he said it was crap, he got rid of it and bought an XP3200 AMD system and said it was way faster?
I like AMD for the price they are very fast, but Intel have more Bandwidth on the Memory Bus, best bet is to get a 2.8Ghz P4 - Hyperthreading and 800Mhz Front Side Bus - fast and cheap. Get a Canterwood Motherboard and two matching sticks of PC3200 RAM - get two 512Mb if possible, it should run fine with two 256Mb though. That will be a faster system than a Dual P3.
I have no idea how quick Dual P3 is, but SDRAM on a P4 has a Bandwidth of about 500Mb/s I assume this is more than Dual P3. P4 with a single stick of DDRAM is about 1.4Gb/s and P4 (as above) with, DualDDRAM is gonna be about 2.5Gb/s.
Hope that helps more than it confused : )
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