Barton or P4 for webserver ?

[matga]

Hi,

I plan to build a webserver.Windows 2003 Standart and Mysql.

config:
P4 2.6Ghz 800mhz FSB HT
4x512 MB ram Twinmos PC3200
HDD1 : Hitachy Deskstart 7k250 120GB
HDD 2,3 : 2xWD Raptor 37Gb in RAID 0 on SI3112A
ABIT IC7 MAX3 i875
Case Casetek CS-1018 with Enermax EG465AX-VE(G) 460W

Is it good ? Or better use AMD Barton ?
HDD and MB,Ram is OK ?

I want overclock cpu 2.6 to 3.2ghz.

Thanks.

Xiox

 

[juin]

should be find with P4 but this setup will be to fast for nothing unless you deal with large request as we run 100 transaction second on a P1 200 mghz

I dont like french test

 

[shadus]

Honestly unless you need a monster server, this is overkill. I have several linux boxes that do ~50k hits a day and not one is in that class. In fact the fastest is an 1ghz and I don't think I've seen the load go above a few % on it with mail, web, shell, and ftp all being loaded and used. I'd probally save money and go with a 2500+ barton.

Shadus

 

[ChipDeath]

I do agree with the others, but if you still decide to get this system & overclock it you'll need faster RAM, as the only way to oc a P4 is by increasing the bus speed, and the best performance is obtained by running the RAM at the same speed as the CPU FSB.
The RAM you suggested is 200Mhz RAM (PC3200/DDR400) which is the same speed as the 2.6 Cpu's bus at stock, so to overclock you'd be better off with some PC4000 (250Mhz/DDR500) stuff or thereabouts.

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[rain_king_uk]

Personally I would go with an Opteron, Xeon or AthlonMP for a server.

 

[shadus]

What is your reasoning behind that?

Shadus

 

[rraquib]

In case you want server class stability. This is the reason to go with server class processor (platform).

 

[IIB]

But I bet you dont run Windows 2003 on it. :lol:


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[Guest]

The guy is gonna overclock his server (God knows why), so I doubt its anything near mission critical.

To the original poster: if you're just serving static HTML, or moderately complex ASP/JSP/whatever, I doubt the cpu is ever going to be a bottleneck as long as you don't saturate half a dozen of T1 lines with your website. To give you an idea, AFAIR, www.aceshardware.com runs of a single cpu 400 MHz Sun sparc system. Its a pretty damn popular site (though nowhere near THG), and its one of the fastest websites I know. A celeron/duron or even VIA C1 based system would probably be more than fast enough for your needs, unless you'd tell me you work for ebay or amazon

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[juin]

sure just the OS will bring the Systeme down.Unless you need feaure of windows 2003 any others will do the job.Again anadtech deal with 4 opteron all there transaction from page request to ad and forum data base.

The worse that happen is Anti virus must deal with a so large amount of file that bring the power of CPU/RAM down quickly that were the Opteron or xeon become useful.

The 2 worse security verification from Verisign or any stuff like that on 128 bit precision that werew you see SUN and Alpha CPU take on normaly.

I dont like french test

 

[juin]

you know a Itanium or P4 have about the same failure rate it how there platform it built that improve the stability.

Only exception to stack engine on X86 have tendency to make computer crash after it full that dont happen on Itanium or Sun.

I dont like french test

 

[shadus]

*ROFL*

Don't mind me while I piss myself laughing.

Shadus

 

[rain_king_uk]

What's so funny?

 

[Bahumut]

The bottleneck in the computer is going to be the harddisk.
You'll need fast harddisks and large amounts of memory.

You have more than enough memory and the fastest harddisk setup outside of the SCSI department.

The only thing you need to worry about is reliability.
With that in mind, I'd recommend a low end server processor.
Xeon, Opteron, Athlon MP.

If you want to stick with the P4, that'll be fine as well, as it is so closely related to the Xeon.
You don't need a very powerful processor so go with the best price/performance ratio.

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