Which is gonna be faster for me - Dual celery 500's or single P3 933

[Valhalla1]

I want/need to upgrade my linux box, which is currently a PII-350mhz running on an Abit BH6. It runs Redhat 7.3, Samba local lan file server, (streaming mp3's/movies), VMware virtual system running Windows 2000 Server up 24/7, plus Hercules S/390 IBM mainframe emulator running IBM MVS 3.8J operating system (so basically this little 350mhz box runs 3 operating systems all at the same time 24/7), also FTP and HTTP server (nothing busy)

running the 3 OS's is really starting to kick the little P2's ass, I have the option for about the same price to either
a) upgrade the 350mhz P2 to a ~933mhz P3
b) replace the BH6 with a BP6 and 2 celeron's running 500-550mhz overclocked

stability and uptime are important for me which is why I am thinking choice B is probably not the better one but I've always wanted a dual-cpu system and would like to mess around with this.

on a side note, anyone know off the top of their heads whether VMware workstation 3.1 running virtual win2k server machine will utilize both cpu's on an SMP host system? anyway.. which will give me better performance, the single 933 or dual 500's? for compiliing programs, running VMware and serving up files via SMB/FTP/HTTP

 

[Bartman39]

I would think choice "a" would be the better but the PIII 933 is a 133fsb cpu and could work on the BH6 but the AGP will be way out there... (89mhz) So a new MB would also be in the mix... As for OC`ing a dual setup and wanting stability...? I would opt for the P3 933 and a CUSL2 which can be had for $50 or so... (loved those 815 boards) I just saw one in the buy sell trade forum... I think it was Lemanz had it...?

 

[Intelman07]

If i were u i would use a credit card or save up money and go with a dual pentium 3 933Mhz. It is better for doing two OS's at once!

 

[Valhalla1]

the highest I've seen is a P3 1ghz @ 100 mhz FSB
http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc/a02518.html