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On Friday, November 21, 1997 12:52 PM, Jeff Halper [SMTP:jefflist@ihot.com] 
wrote:

> Anyone have any experience in what performance increase we can expect
> when upgrading from pentium 133?

Well, upgrading from a 133 to a 200 will be a standard 50% upgrade in CPU 
power (both use a 66MHz bus).  That doesn't mean much if you're not CPU 
bound.  The Pentium II will be appropriately faster, and add MMX, but I 
doubt MMX is a big concern for an ISP.  Are you really that CPU bound?  Our 
mail server and web servers are almost constantly disk bound, never getting 
over 10% CPU, on a Pentium 200.

> Is it a worthwile upgrade? Will it be be somehow noticeable to the users?

Knowing what services you're running, and whether you're maxxing out the 
CPU, helps.

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