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Upgrading a Server

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wtiberon

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I'm upgrading a server that serves 9 computers. Which processor would be the best bang for the buck? I don't want to go crazy just enough to suit our needs. Any ideas?
 
What exactly will this server be doing? File serving? Database? etc
 
It is a small business server stores files and acts as a database for a few programs
 
It mostly just sits as the box in the back and is access constantly since all the files for the office are kept on its drive however most of these files are documents, spreadsheets and the like. The database is minimal with a few programs that have client information. Most of the database is handled by the program though.
 
What's the current CPU? For simple file serving, you don't need much in terms of the CPU. What brought about this upgrade?
 
The chip is a single core Intel Xeon 3.00 GHz 604 pin mPGA socket. We have 2 gigs of ram. We are upgrading all our computers (about 7) to run a network speed of a gig. None of us are server experts but we are worried that the increase speed of the computers would bog down the server. So we were thinking of increasing to a dual core.
 
It sounds like pretty light duty overall on this server, I doubt changing to gigabit would cramp the server. Things will run better at gigabit, of course, and that was likely a bottleneck before. I'd try out the new gigabit setup for a while before deciding to upgrade the server or not.
 
What [LYL]Homer said. As long as your server has a gigabit NIC, you should be set in terms of speed and performance. A faster CPU will not help your networks speeds that much.
 
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