the Q6600 at its price is hard to ignore, and it can be a long term investement. by buying a Dual core, when the Quad is close in price!
its life span will be longer than a Dual Core.

if you look at one of my computer, it is running my own code, I am pretty happy of the performance of it :) Large scale demo soon.

who?

the Q6600 at its price is hard to ignore, and it can be a long term investement. by buying a Dual core, when the Quad is close in price!
its life span will be longer than a Dual Core.

if you look at one of my computer, it is running my own code, I am pretty happy of the performance of it :) Large scale demo soon.

who?

Who?.......
Just curious. Over the last weekend, I upgraded my phased quaddy to x64 crunching. Do your optimizations help in 64 bit? Or do they apply equally to 32 and 64 bit crunching?

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

As a rule of thumb, servers don't need fast processors. They need lots of memory and fast disks.

A dual-core processor is probably overkill for home, and certainly more than adequate for the office, even running resource hogs like Exchange.

... unless you're also crunching SETI.

If you also want to play with different configurations, I'd think about something that'd run VMware Server well.

Thanks Ned, took your advice on board. Decided to swap my main system's board & cpu into the server box & put quad in my system.

Windows Home Server has been released in Auz/NZ on 17th Aug & will be released here in the UK on 22nd Aug (hopefully).

So, again hopefully, should have server up & running by the end of Sept.

I have VMWare Server on network, but from what I have seen of WHS(scaled version of Server 2003 R2) I may have to upgrade my version of VMWare.

I am using version 1.0.1

About 4 GB of RAM.

I have done some reading before I put together my C2D in June and what I learned is that Win. Xp will not work well with more then 3 GB of RAM. There are several articles on M$ website explaining why and how to make it work with server version of M$ OS. I have opted for a 2 GB kit (two 1 GB sticks) of DDR2. Bottom line is that whatever you decide to do about RAM, 4 GB is a waste of money for plain M$ OS. If you run sever version (M$ 2003 Sever?), then you will be able to take advantage of the 4 GB RAM.

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