According to anandtechs own: "AMD's Athlon XP: Great performance, poor marketing" article the AMD Athlon XP 1.53GHz (1800+) scored 213 on Internet Content Creation SYSMark 2001 bechmarks. Yet 2 Athlon MP's 1.2 Ghz could only score 208. (found in Tyan's Tiger MP: Affordable Multiprocessing - Sep 26th, 2001). According to these benchmarks, multiprocessing is twice as expensive and 1% slower than going the conventional route. I know I'm missing something but I cannot find one benchmark where 2 Athlon MP's beat 1 Athlon XP. I'm going to be building some servers for my website yet I cannot make an educated decision on Multiprocessing through benchmarks. Is Multiprocessing worthless? Are there any accurate benchmarks out there because I know this cannot be right. Also what benchmarks are best to look at for a simple website that gets alot of hits. Oh ya where can I find good benchmarks?
I am running a dedicated server to host a information database website. For instance the end user will only be looking at pictures and text. nothing else. The only services the server will provide will be e-mail, and a search-engine that will search the website itself. I expect several hundred hits per hour and high bandwidth will be needed to a transfer a very large amounts of tables, charts, and graphs (all in gif and only gif format). Will SMP benefit this and if so by how much. Also would there be a advantage of 2 gig ECC DDR RAM over 1 gig ECC DDR RAM in this scenerio??? Are there any benchmarks out there which I can make an educated decision on these Factors???
Please help,
The seriously confused (me)
I am running a dedicated server to host a information database website. For instance the end user will only be looking at pictures and text. nothing else. The only services the server will provide will be e-mail, and a search-engine that will search the website itself. I expect several hundred hits per hour and high bandwidth will be needed to a transfer a very large amounts of tables, charts, and graphs (all in gif and only gif format). Will SMP benefit this and if so by how much. Also would there be a advantage of 2 gig ECC DDR RAM over 1 gig ECC DDR RAM in this scenerio??? Are there any benchmarks out there which I can make an educated decision on these Factors???
Please help,
The seriously confused (me)
