I'm actually still in the process of moving onto my new 4webspace raq 3. I like it so far but I'm a bit nervous about the cpu power of the machine.

Can anyone enlighten me as the to relative cpu power of a raq 3 vs a raq 4 vs say a PIII 750? I looked at cobalt's site but they're not upfront about the CPUs used in their machines. I believe the 3 has an AMD processor in it and they say their 4 is 450Mhz and Intel compatible which I assume means it's another AMD processor.

Also my raq from 4webspace has 256M of memory so I assume this means it's a 3i? Is there a cpu difference between the 3i and 3?

In case your wondering my site is servlets and MySQL based. Most of the pages are dynamically generated though I'm working on caching them and serving up the static version where possible. Right now the RAQ is only running the DB since my old provider cut off my db access but the servlets are still running on the old provider (I'm in the process of repoint the domain name to the raq). The majority of the time the RAQ seems just fine but at one point last night I had the load average up to 15 and it was of course dog slow. I'm not quite sure what caused the spike. Could be google coming around to suck another 60K pages, but that's a different problem I need to fix.

RaQ3: AMD K6/2 300Mhz
RaQ4: AMD K6/2 450Mhz

I don't think you should assume that the 256 MB machine is a 3i, and I'm not sure why you would. Ram can be added to any machine.

As far as how these compare to a PIII 750... I'd take the PIII any day. I don't know what a K6/2 450 is comparable to (I do run one at home in my computer), but...

Of course all things being equal I'd take the PIII too but of course all things are not equal. The PIII costs significantly more.

Based on those processors and a little poking around the net I'd estimate that a RAQ4 CPU is about 20% faster than a RAQ3 and the PIII is probably about 50% faster than the RAQ 3. That's significant but I was wondering it the PIII would end up being 3 or 4 times the speed and it's not.

The reason I thought the 256M was significant is that cobalt says the max ram in a 3 is 128 while the 3i goes to 512. Of course I thought 4webspace said theirs maxed at 256 so who knows.

John

All our RAQ3s are running with 256MB RAM. Not sure if that's the maximum though.

RaQ3's have two slots, so I think the max is 512 (2 - 256's). Not sure where you saw that 3's maxed at 128, but I'd be willing to look at a URL.

http://www.cobalt.com/products/raq/faq.raq3.html#2

Secondly, the RaQ 3 configurations have less memory (16MB-128MB) than the RaQ 3is (64MB-512MB).

Though I suppose that could simply mean that the initial configuration of a RaQ 3 is max 128 but there's still an open slot to stick in another 128.

I am 99.9% certain that the max. is 512 and that you are correct, this is the initial configuration (as sold by cobalt).