On 21 May 99, at 22:36, Chan Fan Chong wrote:

> I intend to build a server for my in-house training on Nt server. Which
> brand/type of cpu should I choose? Intel, Amd or Cyrix?

  I would seriously consider going dual-processor for this -- and that means
Intel.
  You may still be able to find a few dual Socket 7 motherboards around,
especially from Tyan.

  If you decide to go for a single CPU, any can be a good choice.  Cyrix
seems to handle IDE particularly well, and FPU pipelining is rarely needed on
a server.
  Server performance is likely to benefit most from lots of RAM, HD
throughput (SCSI generally preferred over IDE), and large L2 cache (so
PII/PIII over Celeron).


David G

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