Beyond3D Upgraded

How much would it cost if B3D was hosted on a home built server with a T1?

 

Maybe Opterons would have been cheaper, but they might also have IDE-disks and all the cpu power in the world wouldn't help against SCSI-disks in real world server apps.

 

How often does a site like this have to read from the HD anyway? You would think it could run mostly from memory.

 

It depends of the size of the database.

BTW DaveBaumann, what is its size? (If you can answer this).

 

How much faster would you "need" the servers to be :?

Seems plenty fast enough to me 8)

 

It's way neat Dave and the rest of the B3D gang spends time and money on us degenerates, but how come when the server is made 4 times stronger it runs 4 times slower? Just seems kind of odd to me.

 

Dave I demand that you open a beyond3d.com paypal account and have a donate banner on the main site so I can donate !!!!!

I would love to be able to donate 5$ or so a month over what u get on the adds to help the website get all the bandwidth it needs .


I demand it so let it be so !!!!

 

Can't beat it for the price, we'll grow into it eventually....it's kind of neat to not have to worry much about bandwidth anymore.

 

any chance we could see a graph of how traffic has been for the last say 10 days. Just a percentage change would be interesting, no need for very specific data.

epic

 

I hadn't realised that the old P3 1.13 had been released, I thought it had got pulled by Intel when various sites had problems with it ..did they re-release it later again with problems fixed ?

Pardon my ignorance, I left Intel with the BX440 and the old 100Mhz FSB PIII650 ( went to 933 overclocked ! ) to AMD for the Thunderbirds, so lost track.

 

So did Humus wait until the upgrade occured before dropping his bombshell?

 

We're giving Humus a commission.

 

We need to just make another thread with another small change . And just watch the hits grow !!

 

I don't think CuMine 1.13 GHz ever returned to the scene, though Intel tried to get it right with another stepping or two. The P3 1.13 GHz that are out in the wild are based on the latter Tualatin core. (.13 micron)

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Intel never tried it again with the 2 newer steppings (cC0, cD0 instead of cB0). This would have been no problem at all (there exist both coppermine P3 and celeron 1100/100, which typically overclock easily beyond 1200Mhz, at least the cD0), but at that time it probably didn't make much sense to introduce the 1.13 again - the athlons were already way past that speed, and intel wanted to push the P4 (which at 1.4Ghz already doesn't look too good against a 1Ghz P3, it only would get worse against a 1.13Ghz P3). Not to mention that every reviewer would have mentioned the spectacular failure of the "old" 1.13 again.

Yes, and they go up to 1.4Ghz. If they'd have a faster FSB (together with more ram bandwidth), they'd beat a P4 2Ghz...

 

OT, but my wife's rig is a Tuly Celeron 1.4 @ 1.68 that has just been an amazing little pc for me!

The Tuly will do 1.75Ghz all day long, but the AIW 9600 pro don't like the AGP speed that high.

As for threads, did it crack a quarter-million yet? I think that might break some kind of record for here. (And it STILL hasn't been on /. ! )

 

Sorry, double-post....the new server is a little borked up, but I'm blaming Humus.