I would stay very far away from IBM servers.
On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 04:45:15PM -0000, Steve wrote:
> 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
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Bryan G. Seitz
