hi

i need to setup squid on a box..but i need to chose between 2 machines both have same configurations RAM,HD..etc
but they differ in processor (+motherboard)
one is AMD 300 mhz other is intel 300mhz ?
pls suggest me wts ur experiences about AMD and Intel

Either one. If the memory is not ECC, upgrade it to it. None ECC memory is not reliable for long periods of time.

Check to see which motherboard--if any-support ecc memory before buying any.

The only reason I would even consider putting any money in either box is if it is a "production environment". Otherwise, just have it set-up to sync/reload pages more often.

If you aren't running huge quantities of ram and keeping it all in there for speed--you're serving pages from the hard drives so ecc isn't an issue.

I don't remember whether there were any performance differences between AMD and pentium-II at that speed. I would personally go for the intel P-II as I had a few problems with AMD chips from that era--but that was me.

yes check what the motherboard is, but if i were to chose i would chose AMD

Out of the Intel and AMD processors, I would choose the intel processor, although for my gaming mnachines I use AMD XP processors.

A server requires a reliable and "cool" running processor. If the 300MHz is a PII then the 512MB cache isn't going to hurt, if it's a Celeron, it will still match the AMD 300, which is only a K6 processor and a far cry from the Athlon (K7) beasts that superseded them.

With either proccessor heat shouldn't be an issue, but the slot one Intel will run cooler.

Also SLot one mainboards tend to be capable of holding larger capacity harddives than the old Socket 7 AMD K6 Motherboards.

The AMD may be a Slot A processor, in whcih case both systems should be able to support large capacity hard drives (upto 32GB, big for their day) and will both have the same level of cooling.

So it comes down to reliablilty. AMD fan or not, the Intel is the superior processor in that point in history.


Regards

Mick

My old P-II 350 is being used as my linux workstation presently. The slot 1 boards will support just about anything you throw at them. I much prefer intel from that era, but I didn't want to get into a "flame-war".

<U>My K-6 500 board died long ago</U>, but the old P-2B asus board has run faultlessly since it was purchased as "cutting edge"--a long time ago. One thing though, it doesn't seem to get along with cmd-680 based ata (Silicon Image) adapter cards. The workstation/server and very similarly machines I found for the same purpose have New-Old-Stock, non-"Fast Track", non-raid, promise ata-100 and 133 controller cards. I found the set up to be rock-solid. (Promise did actually make a non-raid--non-FastTrack 133 ATA-IDE adapter cards. I have several of them and will probably look for more.)

If you have mixed brands of hard drives: pick only one brand of drive to put on any of the IDE controllers; one brand for the on-board IDE, one brand for all additional controllers. My board will support two "off-board" IDE controllers as well as the "on-board" controller--that adds up to a possible 12 drives without resorting to SCSI.

Use only one brand of IDE controller if you go that way.

Weird timing issues happen with Western Digital drives mixed with anything else and/or different speed drives on the same IDE channel--be uniform on drive capabilities and brand on each IDE channel (IDE-0; Master-slave is one channel) for the very best performance and lowest latency.

Actually, I found that Western Digital is the most glaring, but the issue exists with all brands of drives--especially with stripes, mirrors and raid set-ups. Maybe it is only me--don't know.

Start messing with hdparm and different speeds and brands of drive and you will learn far more than you really wanted to know.