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Thread: 3.0GHz HT or Dual 2.4 Xeon?
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11-11-2003, 05:43 PM #1Aspiring Evangelist
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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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11-11-2003, 06:42 PM #2Predatory Poster
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Good question. Anyone have the answer to that.
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11-11-2003, 06:46 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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not intel's fan, but I would go with dual xeons.
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11-11-2003, 07:52 PM #4Aspiring Evangelist
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Why the dual xeons?
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11-11-2003, 07:59 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by TeKiZeRo
Why the dual xeons?Powered by AMD & FreeBSD.
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11-11-2003, 08:02 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by TeKiZeRo
Why the dual xeons?
2 x 2.4 = 4.8 > 3.06
l2 cache:
2 x 512 = 1024 > 512
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11-11-2003, 08:43 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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Indeed, dual xeon will definitely beat a desktop class proc.
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11-11-2003, 08:47 PM #8WHT Addict
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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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11-11-2003, 09:12 PM #9Aspiring Evangelist
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Haha, alright. Thanks for clearing that up for me guys.
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11-12-2003, 06:27 PM #10New Member
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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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11-12-2003, 06:34 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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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.MattF - Since the start..
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11-12-2003, 08:21 PM #12Aspiring Evangelist
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Alright, I'll go for the Dual Xeons. Thanks
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11-14-2003, 11:22 AM #13Web Hosting Evangelist
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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.
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11-14-2003, 11:32 AM #14/home/xenos
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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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11-14-2003, 11:33 AM #15Web Hosting Evangelist
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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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