Re: 400-480MHz upgrade?

From: Rhugga (rhugga_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 13:05:00 GMT
To: Mike Beckmann <mbeckmann@ibmsystems.com>

Yea, you would be wasting your money. Also, I would shop around, I see
much lower prices than that thru the var's I routinely query.

-CC

Mike Beckmann wrote:
> The system bd is $1000 and the processors are $1100ea and memory will help
> the performance $425 per kit.
> Call me with questions. 847-468-8900
> "Roger P. Johnson" <roger0080@netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:OrmdneWhoaQxOvLdRVn-hQ@comcast.com...
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>>Bib Endum wrote:
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>>>"Andy Lennard" <ck_karisma@SCRUB-THIS.hotmail.com> a écrit dans le
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> message
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>>>de news:c1gh61$4ue$1@titan.btinternet.com...
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>>>>Thanks for this sound advice. At the moment the cash needed to buy the
>>>>hardware doesn't look too horrendous, and it would 'buy' the time to
>>>>investigate the next step.
>>>>
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>>>In this case, I would still leave the cash in the bank. I 'm not sure
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> that
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>>>80 Mhz more will give you a 20% increase in processing power. You might
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> be
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>>>better off adding some RAM if it's a database application.
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>>>
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>>I agree.
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>>It's not worth the labor of doing it (or paying for it).
>>-Roger
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