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Is that overclocked to some degree? The memory benchmarks just seemed pretty high.

I have been benchmarking my system at 2.13GHz, and so far it's on par with the HardOCP article I posted earlier. I will throw up some screen caps of these benchmarks plus some of 2.4GHz (assuming I can get to that ). Also, what were those numbers that you have listed from? I get 1971 and 1996 respectively. These numbers are from using straight DDR266 settings, and not overclocking the memory at all. As for the other numbers, I don't know what they are (I am running at 4x133 vs 4x120, but I haven't found anything regarding the double on that last one). I was thinking about the MSI 845 Ultra-ARU as well, but I wanted to see what the SiS chipset was like. So far, so good. UPDATE: Running the benchmarks while the memory was in DDR333, I got 2516 for both RAM tests, just beating out the RDRAM benchmark. Now, this is just a single stick of Crucial 256MB speced for DDR266 operation. I'll post the images later tonight.

I don't even know, but for a $150 chip it's amazing. Once I get Photoshop installed I post the basic benchmarks that I have so far from this (I need shrink the files a bit before posting online), but I can tell you that they are close to what is posted here, but just a bit lower since I am not running at 2.56GHz (oh, and I think I have read of another person that went passed 2.4GHz as well).

Well, I am gonna go for 2.4GHz in a bit, but I am going to fiddle with SiSoft Sandra and see if I can get some benchmarks for the earlier request. Normally, I don't care for bench-marketing programs but I too noticed a great void in o/c testing for the SiS 645 chipset with Northwood processors.

I have both the 100GB and the 120GB, and they haul a$$.

Update: Now it's running at 2.11GHz with default VCore and PCI/AGP/Memory speeds. Here's the new list... [*]WinXP Pro [*]Intel P4 1.6A@2.11GHz Northwood with stock heatsink and VCore (just got it) [*]Intel HSF [*]SOYO Dragon P4S Ultra rev 2A (SiS 645 Chipset) [*]256MB DDR-266 Crucial RAM [*]WD 100GB ATA-100 HD w/ 8MB Cache [*]Samsung 5x DVD/32x CD Drive [*]Hercules Geforce 2 Pro, 64MB (Detonator 23.11) [*]Onboard C-Media 6-Channel Sound [*]Onboard SiS USB 2.0 with 5.25" Drivebay I/O [*]Onboard Highpoint UDMA/IDE RAID Controller (33/66/100/133) [*]Radius 19" Monitor (Trinitron AG CRT) [*]MS Natural Keyboard Pro [*]MS Intellimouse Explorer [*]SanDisk USB Compact Flash Reader [*]Spacetec SpaceORB 6DOF Game Controller [/list:u]

RDRAM is *normally* better than DDR memory for the P4, but with the way the Northwoods (especially the 1.6As) overclock, they can keep up really well. I am using a SOYO Dragon P4S (SiS 645 chipset) and I have my 1.6 up to 2.11 using DDR266 (at stock speed) and it runs really well. However it probably wouldn't beat a similarly clocked P4 running RDRAM because of the greater bandwidth in the memory benchmarks as displayed here: http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/cpus/intel/p416a/index.html but I have seen others that overclocked them pretty hard and they can keep with the the RDRAM because of the increased memory-to-cpu bandwidth. So, to review, if you go Intel *and* want to overclock, just get a low-end 1.6A Northwood and find a mobo that will let you tweak the hell out of it. If you do that, you can easily come under $400US for the upgrade (mine was around $350, but I had to get a new PSU for the extra 12v+ connector on the P4 mobo). If you *don't* want to overclock, and you still want to go 2GHz or more, then the Intel price issue may be of greater concern. But for me, I just like the stability of the Intel products (and so far, SiS's new chipset ) so it would be worth it.

New toy, and I thought I would actually try a *non* Intel chipset. I had some major issues with this motherboard and another one, but it turned out that they needed a bit longer to clear their CMOS than I am used to. So, here we go... [*]WinXP Pro [*]Intel P4 1.6A@1.72GHz Northwood with stock heatsink and VCore (just got it) [*]Intel HSF [*]SOYO Dragon P4S Ultra rev 2A (SiS 645 Chipset) [*]256MB DDR-266 Crucial RAM [*]WD 100GB ATA-100 HD w/ 8MB Cache [*]Samsung 5x DVD/32x CD Drive [*]Hercules Geforce 2 Pro, 64MB (Detonator 23.11) [*]Onboard C-Media 6-Channel Sound [*]Onboard SiS USB 2.0 with 5.25" Drivebay I/O [*]Onboard Highpoint UDMA/IDE RAID Controller (33/66/100/133) [*]Radius 19" Monitor (Trinitron AG CRT) [*]MS Natural Keyboard Pro [*]MS Intellimouse Explorer [*]SanDisk USB Compact Flash Reader [*]Spacetec SpaceORB 6DOF Game Controller [/list:u]

You probably haven't noticed anything because there may not have been anything to notice. This particular tweak applied to older processor technologies, and is not needed with more modern hardware. For a full explanation, check this out: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q183063

Quote: Maybe Nforce is what they need if i needed an AMD chip right now, id go for mr.nforce btw, the original amd chipset for the athlon, the 750/751 irongate 8) officially stated 2x agp but there was a bug that made it totally unstable if you actually used it, so in practice it was only a 1x board. Its what i used a while back. To be fair though, Intel wasn't entirely clear on its specs with respect to AGP, and I remember there being bugs with the TNT-based cards and certain LX-based motherboards where the system would lock up depending on the rendering demand (most fixes could be done with firmware, but some were due to a lack of appropriate power to the slot). However, even when Intel did clear it up and the card vendors were all in agreement, there still seemed to be too many bugs in the AMD-supporting mobos to warrant buying them.

Just thought I would pass this along. These are the updated support tools for Win2K. http://www.myitforum.com/articles/15/view.asp?id=1905

With a static IP, he would also be setting everything else up manually and that would hope to alleviate some of these issues. If he were to reserve them manually on the DHCP server, that still wouldn't help the local situation on the system with certain settings not being received. I like Andy's idea myself, it seems like it would be a good clean fix since it would be first to get all the information (in theory) and be usable by the OS if it's connected. However, if that doesn't work then I know of others that use ryoko's suggestion regularly to address other hardware issues similar to this when using docking stations (monitors, external PCI cards in some stations, etc).

I like the reliability of the Intel systems, but the processors are simply starved when it comes to memory usage unless you can overclock the hell out of them (like your system) or wait for the newest RAMBUS 1066 RDRAM to come out and make the processors shine. The AMD units units are faster clock for clock and cheaper as well, but I don't care for any of the chipsets that they have to be mated to. So, for the time being (in the next couple of weeks anyway as I am getting a Northwood 1.6GHz or so to O/C) I will stick with Intel stuff for my boxes.

For FTP, it's easiest to just change the port that it's hosting on for your other FTP sites so clients can connect to many of them on the same server. However, if you are looking to keep them on port 21, then you will have to disable socket pooling. I have consolidated a couple of the MSKB articles so that you can just focus on disabling socket pooling for the FTP service and then be able to bind multiple FTP site to their respective IPs on the same NIC. To ensure that IIS only listens on a selected interface, you must disable the Socket Pooling feature and configure the FTP server to listen on a specific Internet Protocol (IP) address: To disable the Socket Pooling feature for the FTP service, run the following commands: 1. At a command prompt, change to the \Inetpub\Adminscripts\ folder. 2. At a command prompt, type: cscript adsutil.vbs set msftpsvc/disablesocketpooling true , and then press ENTER. 3. Restart the Iisadmin service for the change to take effect. At a command prompt, type: net stop iisadmin 4. Start all of the services that had been running in Inetinfo. For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q238131 How to Disable Socket Pooling Configure the FTP server to listen only on the internal interface: 1. Open the Internet Services Manager, and then expand the Computername settings. 2. Click Default FTP Site , and then right-click it. 3. On the menu, click Properties , and then click the FTP Site tab. 4. In the Identification section, click IP Address . 5. Change the IP address from "All Unassigned" to the IP address of the internal interface of the FTP Server. 6. Click OK . 7. Close IIS in Microsoft Management Console (MMC).

Well, it's possible that it could help. While that would help to reduce any bottleneck on the two subnets connecting to the server, the server should also be "aware" of its surroundings and know how to route out requests accordingly. If setup incorrectly, you could do way more damage to your response time (and reputation) than if you had left it alone. If it was up to me, I would just monitor the network traffic for a few days or even a week, and see what the usage is like. If the CPU utilization floats at 80% but the network utilization is less than 10%, increasing the CPU load by using another NIC wouldn't help, now would it?

It could be many things (something missing from the page, something you forgot to setup, etc). The easiest way to find out, is to setup your IIS logging to include "cs-uri-stem", which will then give you (hopefully) the actual line in your code that has the failure. This line might have something to do with you calling access from an object that wasn't even created yet, or something similar. Once setup, try restarting your site and then hitting those pages. Afterward, check the logs and you might see something like this: Code: #Fields: date time c-ip cs-username s-ip s-port cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query sc-status cs(User-Agent)2001-08-08 15:53:31 200.1.1.100 - 200.1.1.211 80 GET /default.asp |[b]35[/b]|800a0411|Name_redefined 500 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.5;+Windows+NT+5.0) The number in bold is the line number in "default.asp" that should be referenced for debugging purposes. HTH

QoS works if you have QoS aware applications and hardware. Not to mention that if you are connecting to the Internet with a 100Mb NIC, yet your Internet connection is only 1.5Mb via a non-QoS aware device, then any reservation made by the workstation will not affect your incoming bandwidth.

It's a server OS, not a desktop OS. By the way, why the need for someone to email you the answer?

That's OK, the BitBoys will most definately have a card that will be powerful enough to not only run DNF (Did Not Finish?), but it will also protect your house from would be thieves and cook a turkey in under 3 minutes.

Sounds like you are talking about "load balancing" (also called "teaming", and in modems referred to as "multi-link" and branded as "shotgun"), and it's completely possible. Your best bet would be to monitor your network I/O on that server and see if you are running a high utilization on the current single NIC. If you are running over 70% constantly (which is really rare), then load balancing is a great way to go. If you are using a client-side data handling structure, then this can help a ton. It will also help if you have the DB server backing up application servers (such as a web application running on multiple webservers but querying the DB on one DB server). How many concurrent connections are you talking about anyway?

Cool, np. If you liked that, then you might dig these links... This one shows all of the tool downloads: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/tools/default.asp And this one shows all of the tools and their function from the Win2K Server ResKit: http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/rktour/server/S_tools.asp HTH

It's your birthday, you go girl...

Actually, it sounds like he wants to change the binding of each site from the current IP (normally listed as <all unassigned IPs> and they probably disabled socket pooling too, this is normally done when many NICs/IPs are bound on the same system) to the new IP that they are going to. Someone that you might want to try out would be Brett Hill at http://www.iisanswers.com/. He might be able to help you with that problem.

We have those 2 Compaqs that I mentioned, plus an old Prosignia 200 (getting retired to development work), a DL360R, and we just picked up a DL380R G2 and they have all worked rather well. I have worked with 3 Dell servers, and while they have been assembled nicely, I do like the software utilities and the general support I have received from Compaq enough to make me keep buying from them. Of course, with the HP buyout I am not sure how long this impression will last...

HA! You saw that too?!?!?! Damn, I installed it and it scrambled the $hit out of my partitions. My Proliant 3000R took it just fine, but the 5500R had a seizure and crapped out. Of course, this was rather handy since it was *only* the database server for our ERP system. Bastards... As for limiting the pushes, our naming convention makes that very easy to control (PC1, Server6, etc) and anything else is easily nailed down by subversion (SP Level). If you want great sources on SMS info, check out www.myitforum.com and www.swynk.com, although the latter is fading away as far as new content goes. You can pick up pre-existing queries and scripts there (of course they took some of mine, so they must be desperate ) and some nice how-tos. In any case, SMS is *extremely* powerful, and should not be used around open sources of heat or combustible substances.