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XeonVsPentium4

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Adeer

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I have a Xeon which runs a powerbuilder application(processor intensive) and SQLAnywhere database. It is almost 4yrs old.
It is being replaced by a pentium4. Do I stick with a XEON (ofcourse a new one ) or goahead and accept Pentium4. Please comment from your experience.
Thanx guys

 
have a Xeon which runs a powerbuilder application(processor intensive) and SQLAnywhere database. It is almost 4yrs old.
It is being replaced by a pentium4. Do I stick with a XEON (ofcourse a new one ) or goahead and accept Pentium4. Please comment from your experience.
Thanx guys
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hmmm, u mean u have a choice between a new xeon (presumably a p4 xeon) and a regular p4??

for multitasking a xeon of comparable clockspeed will be faster than the p4.
 
To be specific I have to choose between Dell Precision 340 and a low end XEON from DELL. Any changes in your suggestion?
 
I always understood Xeons to be better with databases but that was when they offered a cache advantage. The Pentium 4s and Xeons are comparable in performance since they are so similiar (no longer are the low end Xeons offering a large cache). If you are running a database server for use by people, I would recommend a low-end Xeon server still as the 340 is still a workstation and Dell typically designs their servers to be fault tolerant (to some extent).

Edit: Oh in case you are wondering the Xeons now are designed solely for multiprocessing and many Dells offer hyperthreading on their servers. We bought a Dell server at work and my boss was running around telling everyone Dell sent us a quad processor by mistake. I ...had... to correct him in front of our director that they were Xeons with hyperthreading enabled so it was 2 processors acting like 4 processors.
 
LOL. Hopefully your boss doesn't mind constructive criticism.

Adeer, as for P4 versus Xeon... if ALL ELSE IS EQUAL and it's just a single CPU system, IMO get the P4. If the Xeon system has better components, then get it. Now, compared to a 4 year old system, anything new would run circles around it. You mentioned specific Dell models... not being familiar with them, what's the speed of the two processors?
 
Since you say "low-end" Xeon, that rules out the Xeon MP and leaves only the Xeon proper, which is essentially a multiprocessor-enabled Pentium4. Unless the workstation is dual-capable and your apps, or combination of apps, would benefit a lot from running on a dualie AND you could talk them into buying the second CPU, then get the P4. The only other area where I could see the Xeon system making sense is if you absolutely need to use, say, 4Gb of RAM.

A P4 with Hyperthreading, using a HT-supporting OS such as WinXP Pro, could boost your multitasking performance. Then again, with WinXP Pro being about 10% slower than Win2000, you'll need the extra power just to run the OS... 😉 The 3.06GHz P4 is currently the only HT-enabled P4 on the market.

If it were me I'd insist on building my own, of course 😀 And it would be an AthlonXP 2700+ on nForce2, with large quantities of Corsair PC3500 RAM and 15,000rpm SCSI drives. To each his own...
 
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