From: Wade Maxfield Date: March 18 1999 11:02pm Subject: Re: fastCPU vs moreRAM List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/529 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Well, it depends. Level 2 cache is the most important. Ram is second most important. Cpu speed within limits is third most important. If you really want speed, go out and buy a celeron processor and "overclock" it to 450 megahertz. (You will probably have to work with a computer technician to get this accomplished.) Make sure the Dimm memory you buy is 100mhz bus memory and the the celeron to use a 100mhz bus. This combo is faster than a Pentium II at the same clock speed. The reason is that the cache on the Celeron is running at cpu speed, whereas a Pentium II cache is running a multiple slower than CPU speed. If the motherboard supports motherboard cache, that will make things even faster/better. SCSI hard drives are usually a better choice for speed, though the ultra-DMA 33 IDE drives are very close. Be sure to get a lot of onboard drive cache memory. For reliability, try to get a controller that will allow you to Raid 5 the drives. This will require 3 drives minimum, but it gives you the ability to loose one drive of the three to a hard failure and still keep your data intact. wade On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Scott Moseman wrote: > > A partner and myself are going to be building a box to start our web dev > and hosting side business. We're going to be running Linux with Apache > and MySQL (with Perl as the interface). Should be pretty low load at > first, but we want to let the machine be as expandable as possible. > > My question is for the intial build, should we focus more on faster CPU's > or on more RAM? I'm curious as to which would be a better performer. I > know it's good to have plenty of both *grin* but we (of course) have a > limited budget initially and would like to know which route is better to > start up with. > > Thanks for any advice, > > -- > Scott Moseman Got Linux? > scottm@stripped scotech.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To request this thread, e-mail mysql-thread528@stripped > To unsubscribe, e-mail the address shown in the > List-Unsubscribe header of this message. > For additional commands, e-mail: mysql-help@stripped >