HI!
>>Obviously a dual Pentium 600 Mhz will cost far less than a Xenon 400 Mhz
>>with 2 Mb cache but would I get the performance benefits out of both
>>chips
Go Ahead with the dual PIII 600! and why not a Matrox G400 32 mb ram for
video! (You can output to 2 monitors)... and i will suggest at least 512 mb
ram.
My 0.02$ CAN
emman
Emmanuel Par�
GIS/Programming for DBX Geomatics
email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.linux-mandrake.com
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From: climber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 septembre, 1999 19:43
Subject: MI MapInfo and new computer purchase
>Hello all,
>
>I am considering purchasing a new PC, probably a workstation for use
>with MapInfo in the future. There are a few things I would like to
>straighten out in my mind before thinking about configuring my system
>requirements.
>
>1) MapInfo is not capable of utilizing the full potential dual Pentium
>based PC... true or false?
>
>2) Which Chip would be better: Pentium III 600 Mhz 512k L2 cache,
>Pentium II Xenon 400 Mhz 2 Mb L2 cache, Pentium III Xenon 500 Mhz 1 Mb
>L2 cache?
>
>Obviously a dual Pentium 600 Mhz will cost far less than a Xenon 400 Mhz
>with 2 Mb cache but would I get the performance benefits out of both
>chips.
>
>3) Will MapInfo run faster (i.e., total time of operation for a given
>task), with access to more cache or a faster chip. If I have to do a
>lot of database crunching on small bits of info wouldn't the cache help
>out more than the extra clock speed. After all running out to the
>motherboard and then the HD to retrieve that extra 512k or 1.5 Mb of
>data that could have been cached will slow things down running at the
>motherboards speed (currently) 100 Mhz, won't it?
>
>I am also going to be running Corel Draw 9 on this system as well as
>Vertical Mapper, multimedia, video conferencing, 3D graphics, internet,
>etc.
>
>I would like any suggestions,
>
>Stan Johnston
>Geologist
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