Re: [PERFORM] Help specifying new machine
You're not going to be able to get a Dual Athlon MP for the same price as a single Xeon. A few years back, this was the case because Xeon CPUs MBs had a huge premium over Athlon. This is no longer true mainly because the number of people carrying Athlon MP motherboards has dropped down drastically. Go to pricewatch.com and do a search for 760MPX -- you get a mere 8 entries. Not surprisingly because who would not want to spend a few pennies more for a much superior Dual Opteron? The few sellers you see now just keep stuff in inventory for people who need replacement parts for emergencies and are willing to pay up the nose because it is an emergency. I saw pricewatch.com and you're right. I looked for some benchmarks, and I would know if I'm right on: - Dual Opteron 246 have aproximately the same performance of a Dual Xeon 3Gh (Opteron a little better) - Opteron system equal or cheeper than Xeon system. As I'm not a hardware expert I would know if my impressions were right. Thanx, Raoul ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send unregister YourEmailAddressHere to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [PERFORM] Help specifying new machine
William Yu wrote: Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: The present server is a 2GHz Pentium 4/512 KB cache with 2 software-raided ide disks (Maxtors) and 1GB of RAM. I have been offered the following 1U server which I can just about afford: 1U server Intel Xeon 2.8GHz 512K cache 1 512MB PC2100 DDR ECC Registered 2 80Gb SATA HDD 4 4 port SATA card, 3 ware 8506-4 1 3 year next-day hardware warranty 1 You're not getting much of a bump with this server. The CPU is incrementally faster -- in the absolutely best case scenario where your queries are 100% cpu-bound, that's about ~25%-30% faster. What about using Dual Athlon MP instead of a Xeon? Would be much less expensive, but have higher performance (I think). If you could use that money instead to upgrade your current server, you'd get a much bigger impact. Go for more memory and scsi (raid controllers w/ battery-backed cache). ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
