Re: Off topic - Oracle 9i on W2k - AMD Athlon XP or Intel Celeron

upgrade guide:

http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/01q4/011005/index.html

If you surf around that site, you should find purchasing comparisons.

The biggest stupidity with the P4 is the "crippled" LU2 cache.

AMD came up with an achitecture that has a big LU2 cache, which in most (not all) cases translates into a better price/performace ratio.

http://www.anandtech.com/
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old AMD architecture:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1595 -

new AMD architecture:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1591

SMP (for database servers, consider benefits of 2 CPUs, which Win2000 natively supports:):

http://www.lostcircuits.com/motherboard/amd_mpx

regards,
ep

On 28 Mar 2002 at 0:38, Szecsy Tamas wrote:

> I am running Oracle 9i on my home machine (Celeron 300 MHz) and it is pretty
> slow. I would like to upgrade either to Celeron 1.2 GHz or AMD XP 1400+ GHz.
> Apart from the (not negligible) cost differences I can not decide which
> solution would be better in respect to the Oracle 9i performance. Every one
> here at my company would like to persuade me to buy AMD, because it is "MUCH
> faster" than an Intel Celeron solution. Does this hold?

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