Rowan Reid wrote:

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- which processor type to select - I assume Pentium-4 since no Xeon option.

If I'm not mistaken XENONS are PIII with a big chunk of L2 Cache.

The new Xeon's have less on-chip cache (512KB) but extra features such as speeds up to 2.4GHz, 400MHz FSB and hyper-threading. Greg Freemyer wrote:

I thought hyper-threading was unique to the 64-bit intels? I guess I'm wrong.

Yes. See Intel's web-site for details. In fact is seems to work - with SuSE 8.0, Kernel 2.4.18 and hyper-threading switched on in the BIOS, a two CPU machine appears to have four virtual CPU's - at least 'top' thinks so. -- Simon Oliver