From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 1 11:56:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE80A37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 11:56:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6558C43EBE for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 11:56:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (fffinch [192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB1JuGAF037724; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 11:56:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 11:56:16 -0800 Subject: Re: Another hardware question. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) Cc: To: "Artem Koutchine" From: Kevin Stevens In-Reply-To: <001601c2996f$f19e2cd0$0100a8c0@homestation> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, Dec 1, 2002, at 11:29 US/Pacific, Artem Koutchine wrote: > Hello again. > > Well, people said that dual P III 550 with SDRAM is > definetely slower than single P 4 3Ghz with DDR RAM. > > Now, a bit trickier question. > > Is DUAL P III 1,4Ghz with SDRAM faster than > SINGLE P4 3Ghz with hyperthreading and DDR RAM (PC 3200)? > How much it is slower or faster? Q: Which is faster, a Ferrari or a Yugo? A: How heavy is the traffic? These are essentially unanswerable questions that depend very largely on your application suite. Moreover, the only part that's specifically relevant to FreeBSD is the CPU type architecture; the difference between P3 and P4 support/optimization and support for hyperthreading. You need to do some testing on your own; at least to identify the bottleneck in your existing installation. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message