AMD Athlon XP vs Intel Celeron Server

[fendynet]

Hi HostHideOut members,

I am new to dedicated server and need some advice.
According to your experience, which server spect is better for starting web hosting biz?
(celeron price is $2 more expensive)

Athlon XP 2400+
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512MB Ram
80GB Hard Drive
1000GB Transfer


Celeron 2.4 GHZ
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512MB Ram
80GB Hard Drive
1000GB Transfer

Thanks.

Fendy.

[OCX]

there both good machines
i would recomend AMD over any celeron machine
be good idea to up the ram at least on either machine

[gate2vn]

we have several XP2400 servers and they are working great. I prefer XP2400 than Celeron

[Dras]

Like I have said before in the past, you cannot compare AMD to intel like that. AMD has a lower clock speed but can take more load, and handle the system better. Intel is known for speed, that's about it.

The XP all the way!

[Cow]

AMD manages its cache better than most Intel boards.

[Shane]

Defintetly have to agree with everyone. The AMD machine has a larger cache but does have a slower clock speed. We offer both of these machine and I can tell you that we sell 2 AMD machines to everyone one celeron. The AMD machines flat out perform better.

[Dras]

Please understand this

AXP 2400 = 1.9 - 2.1 (pending on core barton is the best core though =P)
Celeron 2.4 = 2.4GHZ

[mcpaa]

I would recommend the amd xp, i have one myself and it performs very well. If you are using it for hosting, either would do, but i like amd due to it having larger cache.

[omaha.stylee]

I'm going to have to go with the majority of the people in this case.


amd > intel


/me waits for the flame wars to begin

[mace_media]

eh. Athlon xp all the way. Celly is the white trash off intel.

[rasputinj]

AMD all the way vs. a Celeron. Now a P4 vs. AMD is much closer.

[GordonH]

I have had overheating problems with Athlon processors (only have two servers with them).
Finally ended up with motherboard failures.

Thats only my experience though, it means nothing.