Poll: The fastest platform & motherboard?

[Hamburgerpimp]

#3, Although most of them are very close. You probably will not see a noticable difference between them with the same amount of Ram with same clock speeds. #3 is the most bang for your buck. Put 384-512mg Ram in and you will be all set.

 

[nortexoid]

fastest workstation platform eh?

go for 2) if u want the fastest, but the most expensive...
dual p3 + DDR is the fastest right now for a workstation using smp capable software and OS...

get the dual p3 and MSI mobo using sdr for the next fastest system for considerably less money...
ddr memory is currently a GIANT rip-off...

if u wanna save a considerable amount of money and maintain excellent performance, a single proc athlon 1ghz+ on an Epox EP-8KTA3+ (whcih will be available early february - it's a socket A using KT133A chipset coupled w/ IDE RAID on board and multiplier adjustment, etc., plus stable fsb overclocking 150+mhz)

if u want a cheap scsi solution, the MSI master is a good choice...although it doesn't support DDR, so, for the fastest single proc workstation i'd suggest 4).

good luck

 

[nortexoid]

wiat, the Epox EP-8KTA3 is available now as far as i know...my bad.

 

[Vinny N]

Jimbd:

You said you're not 100% sure if they're multithreaded?
I would make an effort to find out before wasting money on a dual cpu setup

 

[Jimbd]

nortexoid: thanks for the input. Your suggesting the Epox board over the MSI K7T turbo??

Vinny_N

I called the companies they said yes apps are multithreaded but didn't say if they were written to take advantage of SMP.

 

[nortexoid]

I would recommend the Epox board, which is currently available, over the MSI Master...otherwise wait for Asus', MSI's Turbo, or Abit's KT133A solution (1-3 months perhaps)...

it will be faster since the fsb runs stable at 133mhz+, while the kt133 becomes unstable little over 100mhz...

 

[Tweakin]

Jimbd... as you stated in the thread above "Anandtech team ended up with clustered 1 Ghz Athlons with IDE versus Dual PEntium Xeons + SCSI RAId. Wow!" I think you missed the point. Each system has a distinct advantage over the other type of system. Anandtech was not comparing AMD to Intel, nor IDE vs SCSI. As a web server, a quicker FPU is needed in addition to Memory bandwidth, and AMD whoops them all in that catagory. IN the DB area, The SCSI systems keep the system flowing due to lower latency and disk I/O access time, which is not a concern for the AMD webservers. Just wanted to point this out. It's like comparing apples to oranges.

 

[Degenerate]

I would go for either the Dual p3 933 simply because there is a board out there and dual is a good choicd for cpu intensive work.

You could also try the p4 bacause many software develepers will produce ones which ssupport SSE2 and further the performance of your computer. However, as there are no P4 dual, you might not consider it much.

 

[Jimbd]

Tweaken:

I completely agree with your observations. I didn't mean to suggest AMD over Intel but rather a single CPU config over the dual Xeons and the possible cost advantage with the correct config.

I believe correct config for the app to be very important that why I put up this thread.

Thanks for your valued inputs.

 

[Jimbd]

The EPox Kt133A mobo has been released. Any comments on coming up Dual Serverset WS or HE-SL boards such as those from Tyan.?

The poll is on give me some inputs guys.

 

[BigLance]

486 sx 25 MHz w/ 4mb 30 pin will spank all those mentioned.... like duh !!

 

[KarsinTheHutt]

Concerning multithreading... aren't future P4s supposed to have some sort of advanced feature that allows simultaneous multi-threads?

jimbd - you should go with a 1.3 GHz Pentium 4 and PC600 RDRAM.


hey hey guys... I was just kidding!

If I wasn't on a budget I'd go with a 440GX motherboard and dual P3-800s
hehehe...

But really, you can't go wrong with a P3 or Athlon based system. Stay away from Pentium 4 though unless you are a hard core gamer!

 

[Pyro]

P4 a gaming machine? is there something I am missing here?

lets see...
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1360&p=16
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1360&p=17
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1360&p=18

any serious gamer with a new machine would not run quake 3 below 1024x768 at which res the CPU does not matter as you can see. Are you really prepared to spend 1000-1500 extra dollars for 1 extra frame per second?