Ace's Hardware: Dual 1.7GHz Xeon vs Dual 1.2Ghz Athlon MP

[Jon Reynolds]

Warren,

  I priced out a system like this for around exactly the same price and was 
considering to use it for my citrix server. I am extremely new to citrix and 
have been reading a tremendous amount on it lately. But do you think that a 
system like the dual athlon would do well as a citrix server for say 60 
people using one DB from 3 remote sites with a 640/640Kb DSL connection?

Jon Reynolds

On Friday 17 August 2001 05:51 pm, you wrote:
> High end performance hardware...
> Guess which workstation architecture won the majority of benchmarks, and
> costs up to $2,000 less?
>
> http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=45000195
> "Today, the Dual AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz configuration goes head-to-head with
> the Dual Xeon 1.7 GHz power of Compaq's EVO 6000, Dell's Dimension 530 and
> Fujitsu-Siemens Celsius 670. But this article is more than a Dual Xeon
> versus Dual Athlon comparison, as we search for the best workstation that
> can address the needs of the most demanding creative professionals:
> computer-aided engineers, designers, digital content creators, game
> developers and scientists."
>
> "If you are in the market for a workstation, then you have come to the
> right place! We offer you benchmarks on Maya, 3DStudio Max, Cinema 4D,
> Truespace, Microstation, AutoCad 2000 (2D and 3D), video encoding,
> ScienceMark, Visual C++ and more. We even have a next generation 3D-engine
> and an advanced Chess program this time around!"
>
> "The dual AthlonMP wipes the floor with the faster clocked Xeons and is no
> less than 31% (!) faster than the best dual Xeon workstations."
>
> "The high clockspeed of the Xeon is not high enough to negate the
> enormously high branch misprediction penalty. The program scales very well
> with more CPUs, but the dual Athlon is still capable of defeating the quad
> Xeon machine."
>
>
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