> 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
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