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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (44730)	1/4/1999 1:51:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1571004

<Xeon systems will be decked out better to make them appear faster.> This is true. However, because the decked out systems are more expensive, the price difference between the Xeon and the Pentium II is insignificant. This doesn't mean that there is no difference in performance between a Xeon server and a Pentium II server, all other things being equal. <My bet is that, all else being equal, a PII running at 4x112 will outperform a Xeon 450 -- when, as I described, the server is handling a large number of relatively random requests> Yeah, you could say that, but how many servers out there are going to overclock their gigabyte (or so) of SDRAM, not to mention the multiprocessor bus, the chipset, the RAID controllers, etc.? Tenchusatsu