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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (30096)	10/27/1998 11:05:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 33344

Craig, A PR233 is usually run at 75x2.5 -- slightly out of spec for the PCI bus but enough to measurably boost network card performance. The server happens to have the identical card, running PCI at 33 MHz, so the server card should be the limit. But apparently it is not, since the server is able to handle 2 or 3 clients running the same report without much of a slowdown. Another thing that comes to mind is that the data may be sent is short bursts, and during these bursts, the network itself is the limit. That would explain why the results are fairly close to each other, but it still doesn't explain why M2-233 beat PII-350. One other thing: the timing of SDRAM in M2-233 is X-1-1-1, while PII may be X-2-2-2 (I didn't check) because of 100 MHz bus. Joe