Re: [PERFORM] Help specifying new machine

2004-08-18 Thread Raoul Buzziol
> 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

Re: [PERFORM] Help specifying new machine

2004-08-13 Thread Raoul Buzziol
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