Adam,

Cool. I may go with a dual quad core setup at a lower clock, depending
on pricing. Also looking a 2 -dual core opteron config. Either way, I
will getting a nice boost. I have two servers, one mostly transaction
and the other a datawarehouse type box that gets hit with Business
Objects. I thought about W2003, but I have SUSE Ent as part of my
Novell OES licensing and will go that route.

Cheers :)

- Lou

>
> Lou,
>
> We have one server with two quad core Xeons (don't recall clock speed,
> 2.8ish?), 4GB RAM, running win 2003 with Firebird Classic, and it
> works like a dream.
>
> There may be a difference between 1 and 2 CPUs with the same number of
> total cores, but it will be related to the bus bandwidth and the
> shared cache between cores.
>
> Certainly a quad-core would give you a spare slot to upgrade to a
> second quad-core.
>
> Maybe look at some hardware based sites to get a feel for the
> difference, and the sorts of applications that benefit to one over the
> other before making a decision.
>
> Adam
>