[K12OSN] CPU vs. RAM for two users

Terrell Prude' Jr. microman at cmosnetworks.com
Fri Jun 1 04:53:43 UTC 2007


Athlons are considerably faster than P4's, clock for clock.  I'd say, of 
your two choices, go with the Athlon in this case.

--TP

ssh at tranquility.net wrote:
> Thanks for the tip, Terrell, I knew they were about the same speed-wise
> (I looked up the 1.8 ghz speed after I posted). You guys who do this on
> a larger scale will know more abt the CPU's than I. 
>
> One thing I forgot to mention, the I/O and disks will remain basically
> the same, just basically changing MOBO/CPU beneath it. Since the
> existing one is 4.4.x this would be an excellent time to upgrade as
> well! I have spare disks, so I will probably set up the new one, create
> the basic users and then copy the /home and custom configs to the new
> one.
>
> thx
> Scott S.
>
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 01:02 -0400, "Terrell Prudé Jr." wrote:
>   
>> With only 2-3 users, you should be fine with 768MB DRAM.  Obviously,
>> more is better, but an AMD 1.8GHz chip (the "2200") will handily
>> out-run any Pentium-4 of similar clock speed




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