Re: All else equal - Dual 800 MHz or Quad 550 MHz Xeons - on NT4.0?

You can't say all things equal, because whatever vendor you purchase the hardware from is going to use different equipment. But if you wan't to make that assumption, I would bet that the 800MHZ dual PIII would be better. Intel SMP is not very scalable, especially past 2 processors, so I'd bet 2 800's would be as good as 4 550's. However the Xeon's might be faster because the vendor might dump in alot more powerful ( read expensive ) equipment like blinding fast RAID I/O and memory subsystems.

But keep in mind that you can always migrate your hardware alot easier then you can redesign your database / system to be more efficient.

Chris

"Stephen Wellman" <swellman_at_chemware.com> wrote in message news:89p588$c13$1_at_gaddy.interpath.net...
> I have a client who is wants me to help size a sever for their Oracle
> database (probble 10 GB in 2 years). They can't decide to buy a dual 800
MHz
> PIII system or a quad 550 MHz Xeon server running NT 4.0 SP5. Can anyone
> help? All else equal, which system configuration would be faster? I
realize
> this is somewhat of a lame question, but any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Stephen
>
>
Received on Sat Mar 04 2000 - 02:52:33 CET