Author: Charles Worthington
Date: 04:18:08 02/21/03
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On February 20, 2003 at 23:00:52, Mike Byrne wrote: >On February 20, 2003 at 20:06:01, Robert Pawlak wrote: > >>Hi Everyone, >> >>I am on the verge of buying a new computer at work. However, I do quite a bit of >>heavy computation, and have a need to run modeling jobs that take days to >>complete. My current system gets a bit sluggish when I do this, and so I have >>been thinking about one of the following: >> >>Dual Xeon >>Dual Athlon MP >>3 GHz P4 with HT >>OS: WinXP >> >>The software I run in the background is very integer intensive. The are times >>also when I run floating point intensive stuff as well. And of course, the >>models consume gobs of memory. So you see the similarities to your typical chess >>engine with large hash (at least for integer stuff). >> >>The application I am using will only run in a single thread. My concern is not >>so much about MIPS, but about whether the machine is still usable while my jobs >>are running in the background. >> >>Base on my limited understanding of hyperthreading, it looks like it might be an >>ok alternative. But I have no idea how well it will perform for my needs. I >>included it because it has the potential to be the best performer. The dual Xeon >>seems interesting to me as well, since it would give me four logical processors >>:-). I also think Intel might be my better choice because of the larger memory >>bandwidth. >> >>Does anyone have any practical experience they'd like to share on this topic? >> >>Thanks, >>Bob > > >Hi Bob, > >I have a dual 1.8 P4 Ghz (Dell) and I am very pleased with it running win2K. >The previous post about the dual and I/O is very accurate and I echo the >sentiments. Dual is a must IMO. My first dual was P333 and that worked so well >that I bought another one when the time was right. Dell also is a very reliable >company - the machines are well tested ,run great out the box and are extremely >reliable IMO. All units now have a "hidden" mirror copy of the factory image in >case you do have a problem, restoring to factory condition is very easy. > >I have easily steered at least 10 people and either purchased of help purchase >20 units over the years. Only one ever had a problem, and they had a new drive >shipped to them as a replacement, the tech arrived arrived and installed it. > >Highly recommended. > >Michael Byrne > >Mike Ditto Mike. I have owned nothing_but_Dell systems. their service is unsurpassed and I have had no problems from their systems. Charles
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