Re: Performance issue on Stable

["Martin A. Brooks" <martin@antibodymx.net>]

IraqiGeek wrote:
> As far as performance, those early P4s and Xeons werent any real 
> performers. My old  XP 1800+ rig with 512MB was on par with a 2.4GHz 
> Northwood P4 (512KB, 400MHz bus) in most tasks that I could throw at it.

Agreed.  My rule of thumb, which may not be true for newer Intel
processors, is that an Athlon processor will keep up with a pentium 4
running at twice the speed.

It's certainly my experience that an Opteron will outperform a
significantly higher clocked Xeon.

Horses for courses, ymmv, etc.


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