Am building a database server for SQL Server 2005 Enterprise edition. OS
will be Windows 2003 Server Enterprise edition. Server is probably going to
be a Dell 6850
(http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_6850?c=uk&l=en&s=lca&~tab=specstab#tabtop)
Although I can get older IBM servers (hence the 4MB L3 cache option below)
for a very good price.
Basic spec is 4 CPU's, 24 GB of RAM and an external disk array. Just
wondering how much performance difference there is between the followoing
CPU's:
4 x Xeon MP 3.0 GHz 4MB L3 cache (400 MHz FSB ?)
4 x Xeon MP 3.0 GHz 8 MB L3 cache (667 MHz FSB)
4 x Xeon 3.6 GHz 1 MB L2 cache
4 x Xeon dual core 2.6 GHz 2 x 1 MB L2 cache
My gut reaction says the 8 MB L3 cache chips will be faster than even the
dual core chips in real world performance. Anybody else have a view ?
Thanks, Steve
