Which one is faster/better?

[EJM]

Hi,

I want to find out which of the 3 PCs I have to work with is faster. I need
to run VS2008, SQL 2005, Office 2007, VS SourceSafe.

The PCs are Dell, not identical, all 3 run XP Pro:

Optiplex GX280 - P4 2.99 GHz, 512 MB RAM

Precision 340 - P4 1.99 GHZ 1GB RAM

Optiplex GX260 - P4 1.99 GHZ 768 MB RAM

Thanks,

 

[Howard Kaikow]

Hi,

I want to find out which of the 3 PCs I have to work with is faster. I need
to run VS2008, SQL 2005, Office 2007, VS SourceSafe.

The PCs are Dell, not identical, all 3 run XP Pro:

Optiplex GX280 - P4 2.99 GHz, 512 MB RAM

Precision 340 - P4 1.99 GHZ 1GB RAM

Optiplex GX260 - P4 1.99 GHZ 768 MB RAM

Other factors to consider:

1. Speed of hard drives.
2. Separate graphics card
3. Number of hard drives, and whether pagefile is on different physical
drive than OS.
4. What software differs, in particular, the auntie virus software.

 

[JS]

Optiplex GX280 - P4 2.99 GHz, 512 MB RAM

2.99 GHz is a lot faster than a 1.99 Ghz PC.
Just add another 512MB of memory if you plan
to have all of these applications open at the same time.

Also check the requirements for VS2008 and SourceSafe.

 

[Roy]

Other factors to consider:

1. Speed of hard drives.
2. Separate graphics card
3. Number of hard drives, and whether pagefile is on different physical
drive than OS.
4. What software differs, in particular, the auntie virus software.

Sorry for barging in but your post is interesting ... as it relates to
things that can potentially improved Xp performance, this pertains to
the possibility of moving the page file to another physical drive. Do
you mean that if the page file is currently running in C drive, it
can operate also in the D driver or even in other hard drives with
different drive letters?
Roy

 

[John]

Given the selections, I'll pick GX280.
Add 1GB or 2GB of RAM.

 

[Howard Kaikow]

Sorry for barging in but your post is interesting ... as it relates to
things that can potentially improved Xp performance, this pertains to
the possibility of moving the page file to another physical drive. Do
you mean that if the page file is currently running in C drive, it
can operate also in the D driver or even in other hard drives with
different drive letters?

Yes, and it is more efficientto have the pagefile on a PHYSICAL drive other
than the one in which the OS lives.
And you can have more than 1 pagefile.

On my Windows 2000 desktop, I have 4 SCSI hard drives.
OS are in:

C on drive 1
F on drive 2
G on drive 2
J, my main OS, on drive 3
Drive 4 currently has only Linux, and is my fastest drive.

I have fixed-size 64MB pagefile on C, and a varriable-size (128-512MB)
pagefile on F.
I used to allow for a bigger pagefile on F.

Any decent Windows XP book should explain this, e.g., the MSFT Press Windows
XP Inside Out.

Also, see http://www.standards.com/index.html?PagefileUsageMonitor.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Mine is faster

 

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Mine is faster

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[EJM]

....funny guy, Pete. Keep your day job though.

Mine is faster

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