OK - so we're looking at replacing a couple of our older Dell servers.
Now I'm fully aware that clock speed doesn't neccessarily equate to performance these days.
If it did a Core 2 Duo at 2.4Ghz shouldn't out-perform a P4 at 3.4GHz.
Anyway, the Dell servers we are looking at contain the Xeon E5310 Quad Core, 2x 4MB Cache, 1.6GHz, 1066MHz FSB chips.
We would be using just a single one of these - that gives us the potential in the future to add a second physical processor if we wanted.
Where on the performance scale does the Xeon E5310 sit?
It's just the 1.6GHz looks rather low compared to the 3GHz parts of only a few months ago (however as I said I'm more than familiar with the idea that processor speed doesn't mean everything).
Thanks.
Now I'm fully aware that clock speed doesn't neccessarily equate to performance these days.
If it did a Core 2 Duo at 2.4Ghz shouldn't out-perform a P4 at 3.4GHz.
Anyway, the Dell servers we are looking at contain the Xeon E5310 Quad Core, 2x 4MB Cache, 1.6GHz, 1066MHz FSB chips.
We would be using just a single one of these - that gives us the potential in the future to add a second physical processor if we wanted.
Where on the performance scale does the Xeon E5310 sit?
It's just the 1.6GHz looks rather low compared to the 3GHz parts of only a few months ago (however as I said I'm more than familiar with the idea that processor speed doesn't mean everything).
Thanks.