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Tuatalin VS Prestonia

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acid16

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I am wondering, I am building a server and am looking at the somewhat outdated Pentium 3's as an option. I have found that the Pentium 3 1.4GHz Tuatalin (512k / 133fsb) is the same price as a Xeon 2.0GHz Prestonia (512k / 400fsb). So I am wondering, which is better? Ive heard the P3's have beaten Xeon's badly in benchmarks..... but I dont know if that would hold true in this case...... the pentium 3 motherboards are also less expensive and use SDRAm which is better for me, so I am thinking of going with them, but I just want to get opinions first 🙂

Thanks,
 
<- Satisfied Tualatin user

In some applications, the Xeons will take a slight lead over the Tualatins, due to higher clock speed and memory bandwidth. In some, the Tualatins will completely blow away the Xeons, due to higher IPC. In most, there will probably not be a very significant difference.

Take that, plus the fact that Tualatins cost less than Xeons, and run a lot cooler, and the decision should be an obvious one. 🙂
 
Building server's is nice because you know exactly what you need it to do and upgrading frequently and getting the latest hardware is often not required. So, to answer your question, what role will this server actually take? What OS? Even a P3 may not be neccesary.
 
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