Ken Moffat wrote:
But, I won't be surprised if a 3GHz system is not as fast as you
think! Sure, the memory (PC3200, or 2700, or DDR2?) is faster than
what I guess must be PC100 in the old box, but the cpu will need
more clocks per instruction. It will definitely be faster in the
short term, but maybe not providing as much room for growth as you
hope. Anybody got any server benchmark results for old/current kit
?
Ken
Although not Intel's latest toy I run a P4-640 (3.2Ghz 64bit w/1g
mem) and it does run toasty. At full tilt running -j3 builds it reaches
56deg in a mid-tower box with 4 fans. As a personal toy it is fine but I
would want more cooling for the SATA drives.
It is fast enough for me and does a full LFS build in well under 2
hours and can render a book in minutes.
If I had my 'druthers I would have RAID 1 as I have lost disks in the
past (oops, when was the last backup?)
900 series would be nice but stay away from the top end as it is
overpriced for minimal performance gain, invest in disks and memory
instead..
just a opinion
George
p.s. for the dreamers, how about a beowolf cluster with distcc.
( I have a extra Sinclair ZX81 and an Motorola 1802 system somewhere in
this clutter I could donate.. :-)
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