2x Xeon 3.06 or 1x Atlhon x2 4400 ?

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I have this doubt. I can get same dedicated server for same price only processor will vary.

What is better?

TWO Processor Xeon 3.06 (old p4, netburst)
or
ONE Atlhon x2 4400

????

Reply to rrmlima

Get the Atlhon, it will be as fast or faster than the higher clocked netburst chip, and will run cooler and use less electricity.

Reply to sportsfanboy

Unlike the Opteron, the Athlon is not a server CPU. Are you sure that it isn't a standard PC? If it meets your performance requirements, I would go with the Dual Xeon as they should be installed in a real server.

Reply to GhislainG

No, it's a dedi server. They offer these two option for same price.

I will run gameserver using MSSQL. What will have best performance?

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Reply to rrmlima

are you getting a motherboard that supports multiple CPU's? and if so the xeon has a pretty low fsb speed, im pretty sure you would be better off with the athlon just because the FSB affects the overall performane of the machine as every peice of data must pass over it. even though the cpu clock is lower the FSB is much more important. the 4400 is pretty cheap too, maybe you should think about buying two of the 4400's and the 4400 has better overclocking capabilities than the xeon im pretty sure. 2.9GHz at 1.35 volts

Reply to jms31207

rrmlima wrote :

No, it's a dedi server. They offer these two option for same price.

I will run gameserver using MSSQL. What will have best performance?

Will the server or the bandwidth be the limiting factor? Since you'll use MSSQL, the system having the fastest hard disks should perform best (unless the DB is on a SAN).

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