Xeon Vs. Pentium 4

[kumarakn]

Any comparison on their capabilities? My boss wants to buy some .NET development machines. He is unsure if he should go for Xeon 3.2 Ghz 533 Mhz bus speed or P4 3.2 Ghz 800Mhz FSB.

Any thoughts?

Kumarakn

 

[ForsakenMaster]

Xeon and tell your boss to dump the .net software.
Personaly i would run a Linux solution it uses WAY less resources the Microcraps server software.

 

[kamper]

I would be asking why he wants 3.2ghz cpus. The price ramping at the top end can't be worth the difference in performance. I don't know for sure but I'd bet you could get two 2.4 xeons for a comparable price. Of course that doesn't factor in the extra cost of a dualie mobo. It'd still perform better though.

I'd have to agree with forsaken on the .NOT stuff but that's personal prejudice

 

[jose]

Forget the .net stuff.

visual studio at least got service pack "6"

visual studio didn't get any service fixes...

now MicroSoft wants to push visual studio 2003 ....

We use Visual Studio w/ sp6, while a friend uses .net & now has to switch to VS 2003 because
some of the stuff won't work on XP.

We only use Visual studio to frontend our Unix databases. I'd check out the latest distro of Linux (whichever you want)
for free development tools.

Regards,
Jose

 

[Socio]

Kumarakn.

What OS he is planning on using?
Is the .net software he intends to use multi-threaded software?

If he is using either Win2000 or WinXP and the .net software can use dual processors then I would for sure go with Xeon, and use a dual cpu motherboard even if he wants to go with a single CPU he can always drop a second in later for more horsepower