Re: Equivalent new processors to Dual 3.06 GHZ Xeon

Mal Osborne wrote:

Nothing in that list is as slow as you old machine's CPUs. A single 5130 will outperform a pair of old Xeon 3.06s in nearly all applications. In most SBS servers, CPU is not the bottleneck anyway. If you are after speed, pay attention to your disk subsystem first, make sure you use a controller with a battery & write back cache. Allow some extra space as well, a 500Gb array with 350Gb of data will run faster than a 400Gb array with 350Gb of data. With RAM priced the way it is these days, 4Gb is easy to justify for anything running premium, or with more than 10 users. You will loose some to the x86 architecture, maybe only 3.5Gb will be useable.

The only caveat I'd add to this is that adding more/faster disks (or indeed a whole new disk subsystem) to an existing server is *waaay* easier than trying to change the processor(s).

Upgrading CPUs always seems to work out much harder than it ought to - therefore I always try to specify decent CPUs from day one, so that you never have to try changing them during the lifetime of the server.

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