On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 10:56:12AM -0500, John Foster wrote: > Anyone who has a few minuts to blow. I need input on the perfoemance of > several motherboards with Debian and your experiences with both > robustness as servers and performance as single user desktops in a > graphics intense environment. > 1. Asus P4T with 1.5 Ghz Intell P-IV cpu > 2. MSI 850 Pro2 with 1.5 Ghz Intell P-IV cpu > > 3. Asus CUV4X-D dual P-III 1.13 Ghz CPU > 4. MSI 694D Pro2 dual P-III 1.13 Ghz CPU > > Which is faster; dual cpu PIII or single cpu PIV. These machines will > not ever be exposed to Microsoft software so I am only concerned with > performance using Linux. I prefer Debian of course but anyone with > experience with other distros are welcome. All boards will have memory > of 2 Gb. And will be using a video card with 32 Mgb of memory. I would never buy a P4. See http://www.emulators.com/pentium4.htm ... I don't design processors for a living or anything like that, but I've been following the technology since I did a paper on the K5 ... by all accounts the P4 is simply a waste of money. I notice you don't consider any Athlon boards ... I've read reviews of the new dual Athlon boards with DDR RAM where they _fly_ ... and that's before overclocking the processors :) http://www.tomshardware.com usually has some good reviews. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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