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4th December 2002, 17:33
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| [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002
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 |  Workstation advise needed My brother needs to buy 3 new workstations, but he doesn't now what to get. My knowledge of Xeon/ MP procs is limited, so what do you guys think? Main application: photoshop and alike * lot's of ram needed * +19" CRT * 2 swappable disks (doesn't need to be hot-swappable) and 2 main disks for OS and progs These are the possibilities so far: * Dual Xenon 400FSB, 2.0Ghz + SCSI RAID for OS + 2*120GB WD 8MB cache DATA + 2GB ECC DDR SDRAM = €4000 * Single Xenon 400FSB, 2.0Ghz + IDE RAID for OS + 2*120GB WD 8MB cache DATA + 1GB ECC DDR SDRAM = €3000 * Dual XP2000+ +same as above = €2000 * Single P4 2.66 533FSB + same as above = €2000 Is Dual Xenon worth it's price? It's amazingly expensive, and only 400FSB... |
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4th December 2002, 17:35
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| this would be my choice (if money is available) Dual Xenon 400FSB, 2.0Ghz + SCSI RAID for OS + 2*120GB WD 8MB cache DATA + 2GB ECC DDR SDRAM = €4000 |
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4th December 2002, 17:38
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| [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002
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| Money is available... but price must be justified. If the Dual Xenon rig is only 10% faster than the Dual XP2000+ rig (which is half the price), the XP2000+ will be bought. Also, why would someonbe advise a single Xenon proc? ??? It's far more expensive than a "normal" p4, and has 400 instead of 533FSB.
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4th December 2002, 17:50
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| price/speed : dual xp performance : xeon multiprocessoring in photoshop& cad/cam is highly supported and the extra budget you need is small €0,02 de moi |
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4th December 2002, 20:15
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| heat! if you buy those two atholon's there will be lots to much heat into your case and xeon are much more powerfull if you ask me! |
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4th December 2002, 20:20
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| Madshrimp  Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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 | Dual XP with some good clip on HS (AX7 ?) make that 2x XP2400+ , unlock them for MP use and you have ONE fast workstation sure to outperform the Dual Xeon 2ghz workstation, no doubt
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4th December 2002, 20:23
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| Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| check these stats Dual Xeon 1.7ghz http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1472&p=12 that is a SINGLE AMD 1.2ghz as comparison... http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.html?i=1680&p=2 Oct 2002
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