Processor .vs. RAM. What's a better bang for the buck?

["John Taylor" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Um... guys... if I can interrupt the Holy War Of The Week for a second, I
need some advice on the best way to spend my hard earned dollars.

Give a 250 with the following basic configurations:

Box 1
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#2295 (15/50 CPW)
1024MB RAM


Box 2
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#2296 (20/75 CPW)
256MB RAM

and all else (including price) being equal, which would you consider to be
the better performer for a mixed workload of:

-  light RPG application usage (mainly testing)
- Web development work using Tomcat, or possibly the yet to be released
WAS-Light

In other words, would I be better off throwing money at the RAM, or the
processor upgrade?


Thanks,


John Taylor