Which configuration will be faster.

[Stugots]

System 1
Soyo SY-7VBA133U, Socket 370
Intel Celeron 1.3@1.6 (Tualatin)
768mb PC133
80gb, 7200rpm, 8mb, ATA/100
Quattro 2 Pro 64mb, 4x AGP

System 2
Tyan S1832D, Dual Slot 1
2x Intel Pentium 3 550@616 (Katmai)
1024mb PC133
80gb, 7200rpm, 8mb, ATA/100
Quadro 2 Pro 64mb, 2x AGP

My girlfriend is running system 2 right now. I just bought that Soyo motherboard to get my old celeron running and I was going to upgrade her to the Tualatin system. I'm pretty confident that the single CPU system will be faster than the dual, but I'm just looking for other opinions.

 

[YARDofSTUF]

I would vote for the Taulatin, that was the best celeron I ever had.

 

[zandor]

Usually the Tulatin. The dual would feel faster if you had an intensive background process going on though, and of course if you loaded enough stuff up the extra 256MB could make a difference (I assume the Soyo board only has 3 slots vs. 4 on the duallie?)

For a desktop I'd go with the Tulatin personally. There's a lot of stuff that won't run well on a 550, dual or not, but would on a P3 Celeron @ 1.6.