if you were currently on a PIII1.0 ghz - what would you think the logical upgrade path is for your server in terms of processor on the next box you went to??

P4 1.7 celeron?

I'd say a 1.7celeron2 is just as good as the p3. I'd go up to atleast a p4 1.5ghz.

No way, the logical upgrade from PIII would be something along these lines:-

http://www.storeanywhere.com/news/html/storefront/product_info.php?products_id=126&PHPSESSID=8bcb42e9e3fc6c8ff6d534e8c3c6aa76

Is that in the budget Sailor? :D

The most economical, and logical is a dual PIII 1.0

Reuse hardware, gain a large amount of performance. resell the single cpu board.

ok - dual is out of question - this is a lot of money and does not give future upgrade path on the board and is specced to an existing chip that I would have to buy more of - in fact I would have to buy the 512 K cache versions since the dual boards require them and these are the 256K cache - unless you know of one that will take the 256 cache chips - but still will have to buy a new board and chip anyway.

the other one - certainly funny - not in budget but funny - I guess I cant blame you for asking - ehehehehe.

now - what is the fastes celeron made? what is the fastest p4 made. will the standard P4 be able to do dual? what is the slowest p4 made?

these are the things to look at that I have not done yet.

dont want to make any more investment in PIII right now. want to go to something now that can accept a faster chip down the road and or a newer generation.

Fastest Celeron: 2.0 GHz
Fastest P4: 3.06 GHz

I've never seen a dual P4 system - I'm not sure they make dual P4 boards.

I'd say the P4 1.8 GHz is probably the most logical purchase right now... the chips with CPU fan and shipping only run $100 each. Buying into that line of processors will enable you to go to at least 3.06 GHz if you use boards and RAM capable of the 533MHz FSB.

They do make Dual P4 Xeon boards. I'm not sure about regular P4's though. You might look at intel.com and see if they mention whether or not a standard P4 is supported in a multi-processor system.

I myself have been going through the 1.7 celerons like candy, because I think for the price, they can't really be beat. I got them for $55 each. as for the performance.... they are built on the p4 core, so the performance is alot better then the previous celeron

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q2/020612/celeron1.8-08.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q3/020903/p4_celeron-08.html

Look at that... Data encoding time takes the same.... the p4 can encode at 2 fps faster then the celeron... takes 7 seconds less on the mp3 side of things...

I would say its a good budget CPU... alot faster then a P3... and neck and neck with its P4 counterpart... the benchmarks don't lie..