On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 03:41:12PM +1000, George Vieira wrote:
> When programs use it properly... probably CAD or 3D rendering software..
NO what I'm getting at is that in the general sense a server doesn't
run things like CAD or 3D these mainly happen on workstations. So FPU performance
tends to become irelevant.
ie you're average linux server running apache, sendmail and bind couldn't give
a hoot about an FPU.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Ferlito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:35 PM
> To: CaT
> Cc: DaZZa; George Vieira; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] OT - Processor advice
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 03:17:05PM +1000, CaT wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 02:46:59PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
> > > On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, George Vieira wrote:
> > >
> > > > they are short on pentium III 700 Mhz CPUs and would I like an AMD
> Duron or
> > > > Athlon instead?
> > >
> > > Go the Athlon - the Duron is AMD's version of the Celeron - I.E. it's a
> > > little short on things a server needs, like FPU performance.
>
> When does a server need FPU performance?
>
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> John
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