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

[Justin Haase <JHaase@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My vote goes for RAM.

jch

-----Original Message-----
From: John Taylor [mailto:lists@studioworks-tech.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 4:45 PM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Processor .vs. RAM. What's a better bang for the buck?



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
-------------------------------
#2295 (15/50 CPW)
1024MB RAM


Box 2
-------------------------------
#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



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