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dual xeon or single pentium 4

johnnyboy32

johnnyboy32

johnnyboy32

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My current system is an athlon 3200xp on an asus a7n8x deluxe with 512 meg ram. HD are 2 x seagate barracuda V 80gig in raid 0 and 1 x 200gig samsung spinpoint. I have just been given a brand new 73gig hitatchi u320 scsi drive. I asked the advice of a colleague about buying a scsi card but he suggested i may be better off buying a server mainboard and new chip. I did not want to spend this much money but he then told me he could probably get me a xeon processor from a dell workstation (precision 460). would i be better off buying a gigabyte server mainboard (GA-9ITDW) and matching xeon chip to run 2 processors or spend the equivalent amount on a pentium 4 and motherboard and of course a scsi card. The pc is used mainly for playing games and video editing.
 
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The only reason that I considered going down the xeon route was because i have been offered it for free. I don't really know if they are any good and the general feeling on here is to go for an AMD with motherboard and scsi card
 
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