RE: Off topic - Oracle 9i on W2k - AMD Athlon XP or Intel Celeron

2002-03-28 Thread Szecsy Tamas
Thanks for all whoe replied, it helped me a lot. Tamas -Original Message- Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 1:03 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Celeron upgrade guide: http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/01q4/011005/index.html If you surf around that site, you should find purchas

Re: Off topic - Oracle 9i on W2k - AMD Athlon XP or Intel Celeron

2002-03-28 Thread Eric D. Pierce
upgrade guide: http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/01q4/011005/index.html If you surf around that site, you should find purchasing comparisons. The biggest stupidity with the P4 is the "crippled" LU2 cache. AMD came up with an achitecture that has a big LU2 cache, which in most (not all) cases

RE: Off topic - Oracle 9i on W2k - AMD Athlon XP or Intel Celeron

2002-03-28 Thread Mark Leith
Tamas The problem with the install is easily fixed.. Copy the install CD images to your hard drive, and replace each instance of symcjit.dll (I think there are around 3) with this one: http://www.cool-tools.co.uk/Products/Downloads/symcjit.dll I don't know where you got your info about the P4 B

RE: Off topic - Oracle 9i on W2k - AMD Athlon XP or Intel Celeron

2002-03-28 Thread Szecsy Tamas
Mark, thanks for your comments. Actually I do Forms developement on the maschine and some surfing and email handling. I do no shoot out gaming or video editing :-). I did not look at P4 because it had some problems with Ora9i installs and every body kept saying that AMD is much cheeper. Now I ch

RE: Off topic - Oracle 9i on W2k - AMD Athlon XP or Intel Celeron

2002-03-28 Thread Mark Leith
Tamas, I suppose this also depends on what else you use your home machine for? I run 9i on a P4 1.3GHz, and it screams (apart from the fragmented shared pool that I keep on getting - that I need to sort out when I get the time , tips anyone? ;P). Why not put P4 in to the equation? I know it had

Off topic - Oracle 9i on W2k - AMD Athlon XP or Intel Celeron

2002-03-28 Thread Szecsy Tamas
Hi, I know this is by far off topic, but if some one could help me with this I would be very grateful. I am running Oracle 9i on my home machine (Celeron 300 MHz) and it is pretty slow. I would like to upgrade either to Celeron 1.2 GHz or AMD XP 1400+ GHz. Apart from the (not negligible) cost di