P3 2 cores vs single core P4

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I scrounged aorund out university's surpus store and found the 2 computers, 1 which will be a gaming server, I'd liek your suggestions which one to choose for the job.


PC A:

Compaq Proliant ml350

1x P3 tulamine 1.26 ghz (512kb cahce) @ 133mhz bus
1x P3 ???? @ 1.0 ghz (not sure other info on this chip atm)
4x 512mb memory @ 133mhz
3x 18.2 GB SCSI HDD (will RAID 0 it) with SCSI Card


PC 1:
2.2 ghz Northwood A (512kb cache)
1GB DDR memory @ 400mhz
1x 40GB HD


I am not sure for a 2 core computer that you need to have 2 of the same CPU or not in order for it to work? I'll try to find another P3 the same as the other one but I would like ot know if they are different CPUs that the computer will run.

Windows XP will be on both, the game on the server will probably be SWAT 4 or Counterstrike or Natural selection. Obviously the HDD speed kicks butt on the slightly old P3 though the bus is kinda slow and the difference in PCU speed it pretty significant but maybe not so bad due tot he 2nd processor.

What do you say? Which one will be our lab's new game server?

 

[classy]

The dual cpu p3. If those are tulatins, trust me those things kicked some butt.

 

[Matt1970]

I would go with the 2.2 system.

 

[moddedcompsdotcom]

go with the dual p3s, like classy said if they are tulatins they will own the 2.2 northwood. I had to make a choice about 2 months ago and i do not regret the dual p3s

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: moddedcompsdotcom
go with the dual p3s, like classy said if they are tulatins they will own the 2.2 northwood. I had to make a choice about 2 months ago and i do not regret the dual p3s

Are you guys just saying that because there's 2 of the p3s, or would you be saying the same thing if it were 1 on each (i know the pentium m was based on the later p3's, but idk how a tualatin would compare to a northwood when the northwood is 1ghz faster).

 

[chizow]

Originally posted by: f4phantom2500

Originally posted by: moddedcompsdotcom
go with the dual p3s, like classy said if they are tulatins they will own the 2.2 northwood. I had to make a choice about 2 months ago and i do not regret the dual p3s

Are you guys just saying that because there's 2 of the p3s, or would you be saying the same thing if it were 1 on each (i know the pentium m was based on the later p3's, but idk how a tualatin would compare to a northwood when the northwood is 1ghz faster).

Its been a long time, but I'm pretty sure the 1.3 Tualatin outperformed the 1.6 or 1.8 P4. Was kind of embarassing for Intel and the 1.3 Tuas were pretty hard to find as they tried to sweep them under the rug and usher in the P4 NetBurst era. By the 2.0+ GHz P4, they'd ramped up clockspeeds enough to eclipse the P3 Tualatins.