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  1. #1
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    3.0GHz HT or Dual 2.4 Xeon?

    Hi,
    I'd like your input on which systems would be better for a combination of hosting gameservers, and a few websites with potentially high traffic. Would a 3.0GHz HT or Dual 2.4 Xeon suffice?

    Thanks :]

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    Good question. Anyone have the answer to that.

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    not intel's fan, but I would go with dual xeons.

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    Why the dual xeons?

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    Originally posted by TeKiZeRo
    Why the dual xeons?
    two heads better than one
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    Originally posted by TeKiZeRo
    Why the dual xeons?
    clock:
    2 x 2.4 = 4.8 > 3.06

    l2 cache:
    2 x 512 = 1024 > 512

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    Indeed, dual xeon will definitely beat a desktop class proc.

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    And with HT the Dual Xeon will show as 4CPU's, looks nice in TOP on my new server
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    Haha, alright. Thanks for clearing that up for me guys.

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    you should get the 2.5mbcache 3.2 ghz processor it will havemore cache and lots of power

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    Re: Intel P4Extreme

    The price on the chip is shocking, I think that's a big mistake Intel has made, before it's time in terms of cache to market demand, and marketted at the wrong audience, still go with the Xeons very powerful in dual config and tried and tested.
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    Alright, I'll go for the Dual Xeons. Thanks

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    Why dont you just start with 1 3.0GHz xeon, then when you need a second install it, because invariably at this very moment you probably dont need 2 xeons. Plus the longer you can hold out on a single CPU the cheaper the second one will be. Web serving isnt really usually all that CPU intensive, its I/O, Memory and Bandwidth intensive.

    -Drew

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    If he is running a combination of gameservers and website then he really should go with the dual Xeon. If one cpu reaches capacity then he still has another to pickup the additional load.

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    If he is running gameservers I would suggest an IBM blade server. This is the best thing since sliced bread for game servers, they use very little space and offer basically unlimited capacity.

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