[K12OSN] Which server would you prefer?

[Chris Thomas]

Hello,

Go for the P4 for a few reasons:

1. PPro doesn't have MMX, SSE or any of the recent
instruction sets that speed up operations.

2. At most, the quad system would be kind of similar
to a 800MHz computer.

3. If you could underclock the P4 to the speed of the
PPro, 180 or 200 MHz, I think the P4 would still be
faster.

PPros, specially the quads, are ment to hold up to a
beating. I would use the PPro box in a mission
critical area people don't care about performance that
much. For example, LDAP/Samba server, email server,
proxy server, etc.

Chris

--- The Prof <joseph.bishay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've got 2 possible machines in front of me to make
> into a server:
> 
> 1) Pentium IV 3.2 Ghz machine with Hyperthreading
> and 2 GB RAM
> 
> 2) Quad Pentium Pro machine with 2 GB RAM
> 
> Which would you rather run as a k12ltsp server?
> 
> Thanks,
> Joseph
> 
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