On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:35:00PM +0200, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > IraqiGeek wrote: > >As far as performance, those early P4s and Xeons werent any real > >performers. My old XP 1800+ rig with 512MB was on par with a 2.4GHz > >Northwood P4 (512KB, 400MHz bus) in most tasks that I could throw at it. > > Agreed. My rule of thumb, which may not be true for newer Intel > processors, is that an Athlon processor will keep up with a pentium 4 > running at twice the speed.
Good. The ISP has offered to replace the machine with Opteron newmoon (1.8Ghz). Sure hope that makes a difference. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]