What would you say the speed / resource difference is between

Intel Pentium 4 2.0 1 GB 80GB 700GB cPanel

and

Intel Dual Xeon 2.0 1 GB 73GB SCSI 700GB cPanel


or what's the fastest server you can get at RS?

Thanks

naturally a dual xeon is much more faster... and even faster with a scsi harddrive

just 1 xeon is able to beat a pentium 4

Intel Pentium 4 2.0 1 GB 80GB 700GB cPanel - harddrive only 7200rpm

Intel Dual Xeon 2.0 1 GB 73GB SCSI 700GB cPanel - harddrive is 10K rpm!

Would one of these be better then two P4's?

if you got enough budget, get dual Xeon (Xeon made for server CPU!) and Scsi harddrive

Do you mean 2 P4 machines, or a dual P4 machine? Because you canNOT have 2 P4 CPUs in one machine...

There is actually some advantages to 2 P4 machines, and 1 dual Xeon machine. Obviously the Xeon has better processing power because it can use both CPUs w/o network overhead. However, with the 2 P4 machines, each CPU has it's own bus -- so they can hypothetically access memory more quickly.

However, I would recommend the Dual Xeon box over 2 P4 boxes unless 2 boxes better suites your needs, as opposed to 1 beefy box.