VIA Apollo Pro 133A with Dual Processors

For all of you gamers out there, the performance improvement that can be seen with adding a second processor isn't much at all. This is partially due to the fact that the GeForce2 GTS' GPU is actually offloading quite a bit of the calculations from the CPU.

You're reading the above table just fine, running dual processors under Quake III Arena at higher resolutions where the game should be video card limited is actually slower than running a single processor. We can only attribute this to a problem with NVIDIA's 5.xx drivers since we never had this problem before.

So if you're running those drivers and happen to want to play a game or two of Quake III Arena, you'll want to turn off SMP by setting r_smp = 0 which is the default setting.