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To: Bilow who wrote (47288)	7/15/2000 7:00:50 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 93625

Hi Bilow> Re: "In most cases buying the fastest hard drive is the best way to improve performance, not the fastest CPU or ram.." While this is possibly true, it really depends on what you need the computer to do. My suspicion is that workstations are dominated by (1) memory size, and (2) CPU performance. At least that is what I have found with the applications I use all the time. My point is, like in buying high quality Hi-Fi equipment and or hi quality camera equipment there reaches a point when you really can't tell the difference in speeds or sounds or resolution without get a calibrated piece of test equipment to check it. As for memory I am talking about the speed, not the quantity of the ram. Quantity makes a difference for ram, speed makes little difference in most cases. But the speed of your hard drive can make a HUGE and apparent difference in most cases. So IMHO Hard Drive performance is more important than that of Ram speed in most situations. Regards Don

To: Bilow who wrote (47288)	7/16/2000 8:29:17 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Carl: I can take the same money and add 200MHz to the processor, which will improve performance by 10% or more. It seems that buying another Intel CPU to make SMP system is the best investment in additional computing power. Second processor increases performance by at least 80% if I believe Intel. As far as I see it, Intel has been designing multiprocessing workstations exclusively with 840 chipset utilizing RDRAM since beginning of year. Intel will migrate to Willimette in late fall also with RDRAM. No SDRAM or DDR seems to be in the works for workstation marketplace by Intel. john