Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 05:28:32 CDT 2011
Meanwhile, we pensioners subsist with a mere 4 gigs of RAM and a single duo-core processor. I guess JC's in that 1% we're hearing so much about lately LOL. Arthur On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Jim Dettman <jimdettman at verizon.net> wrote: > <<As an example I built two "servers" back in 2004 for handling the SQL > Server database client. The > technology I could afford at the time was AMD 3800 (single core), 4 gigs > RAM, Windows 2003 X32 and > SQL Server 2000 X32. From there I upgraded the processor to dual core. I > then replaced the > motherboard and moved to a quad core, upgraded to Windows 2003 X64 and > upgraded my memory to 8 gigs. > Then I upgraded to 16 gigs. Last year I built an entirely new system with > a dual socket AMD with > only one 8 core processor (one socket populated) and 16 gigs of memory. > Then 32 gigs of memory. > Then populated the other socket with another 8 core chip and 32 gigs of > memory.>> > >