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by jim.brown

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We are about to start shipping Windows 2000 by the end of this year, at the moment we are trying to figure out whst would be the best baseline spec for the following systems,

Win 2000 Server with SQL 2000
Win 2000 Pro With MSDE

At the moment we are thinking of shipping Workstations with Celeron 400Mhz And 64MB RAM
Servers with PIII 500Mhz and 128MB RAM, I would like any feed back about the above, I'm sure that I have got the prossesers about right, but I am unsure about the amount of RAM.
(I do know the MS spec, I mean in the real world spec)

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by tony.colgrove

I would put at least 128MB in your workstations, and 512MB in your SQL box.
I would also use PIIIs in the workstations, Celerons are not business processors.

by mckaytech

I agree with Tony as regards the RAM (128meg for workstations and at least 256meg for the servers but 512 would be much better) but respectfully disagree about the CPU. Particularly with RAM prices as low as they are, skimping on RAM is poor economy.

The distinction between business and home use is largely artificial and, in fact, I find that home users are typically far more demanding. For that reason, I don't have a problem with the Celeron in a business machine.

paul

by braveh4rt

I think for the server you use the PIII and minimal memory is 256 Mb .
But dependign on the future use of your server, do you will add any other programs? besides that, your database will grow larger and you will need more RAM isn't. So by think ofit you can chose your best decision. And for the workstation i think it's not a problem use celeron but better you use PII cause it's better than celeron and PII with cache memory for more performance with 64 Mb Ram .
And of corse you should think about the switch speed or hub speed for the network performance.

This only my opinion.
Thank You..

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