On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. > Gaming like Counterstrike and other games needs a > fast harddisk, not the 5600, but the 7200 rpm, > udma 33/66/100 harddisk. You can feel the > response and speed.
This is OT! For Linux, if you have a single-processor Pentium III, going with a DDR solution (e.g. ASUS TUA266) will not buy you much improvement - 10% at most. For Pentium-4, DDR or RDRAM is mandatory. You lose 30% system performance by going with an SDR solution (e.g. Intel 845 chipset). For Pentium-III dual-processor, going DDR will gain you 30% over SDR. This is for VM-intensive workouts like kernel compilation. So. With a 2.4 kernel, going from UP to 2-CPU SMP gains you about 70% on multiprocessing loads like kernel compile. Going with DDR on top of that will give you another 30% for around 90% performance increase over UP SDR solution. There is no locally available SMP DDR Pentium-III solution at present. For AthlonXP or Athlon rigs of at least 1.2GHz, DDR will give around a 30% performance improvement over SDR. For anything less (e.g. 1.0GHz or lower) or for Pentium-III the extra memory bandwidth is not that important. This is why the Intel OR840 mobo with dual RDRAM channels and 2x Slot1 is a better server board than, say, the VIA694X-DP -- two Pentium III's can saturate the 1GBps PC133 SDR channel. But one Pentium III cannot. -- Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mosaic Communications, Inc. _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
