Hi I run dual PIII 1 gig's in one of my boxes and I don't want to change out the whole mother board to go to PIV's.

What is the largest PIII made and what is my best option on adding some more power without a ton of cost on replacing it all of the insides.


I see these PIII Xeons, but how would that work on the current box? anyone using them?


Thanks

Robert

Originally posted by GWDGuy
Hi I run dual PIII 1 gig's in one of my boxes and I don't want to change out the whole mother board to go to PIV's.

What is the largest PIII made and what is my best option on adding some more power without a ton of cost on replacing it all of the insides.


I see these PIII Xeons, but how would that work on the current box? anyone using them?


Thanks

Robert

Xeon's have increased cache and performance, great processors, but there's a good chance your current motherboard won't support them, you should check in to it, but I'm surprised you're finding the Dual PIII's @ 1GHz not enough, the best leap would be to PIV's (stick with the dual, one PIV @ 2.4Ghz likely won't outpower your dual PIII's @ 1Ghz ;) )

Cheers,
Matt

How much ram do you have installed?

You can boost performance with more ram too, unless you already have over 1 or 2 gig.

thanks for the replies...

I checked and the mother board will only handle the 1.26 PIII's so I would have to upgrade to a new MB to go to the PIV's

I have (2) 512's of ECC register Ram now. If I add add 2 more 512's will I need to move the swap around and will that make a little better proformance?

Thanks

Robert

No, you shouldn't have to touch the swap partitions....

By adding more ram the OS can cache more data, which can help alot. But if the server is, for example, running alot of cgi scripts you probably won't benefit as much. Still, there's the old saying of you can never have too much ram.

Since you're pretty much tied to those cpu's on the box, adding more ram is a fairly inexpensive option.

Else, you could consider getting another box and lighten the load on the current one by moving stuff (people) off on to the new one.

Regardless, you should look at what's running on the server and make optimizations and tweaks where possible and decide if you would benefit most from more cpu or extra ram.

you should be able to go to dual 1.4's which are work horses. You can't go dual p4 without going Xeon. and a Single p4 is rubbish IMO.