Does SBS 2003 Premium work properly on QUAD XEON server with 16Gb memory on
board ? What will be efficiency, productivity of above four CPU'S ?

regards Dariusz

What Russ said...

Hardware requirements for Windows Small Business Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829711

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"Dariusz" <Dariusz@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> Does SBS 2003 Premium work properly on QUAD XEON server with 16Gb memory
> on
> board ? What will be efficiency, productivity of above four CPU'S ?
>
> regards Dariusz

What Russ and Merv said. But to add to that, SBS 2008 Premium will quite
happily use a quad Xeon server, assuming the Xeons are recent enough to be
64-bit. SBS 2008 is limited to 4 physical CPU sockets and 32 GB of RAM.

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"Dariusz" <Dariusz@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> Does SBS 2003 Premium work properly on QUAD XEON server with 16Gb memory
> on
> board ? What will be efficiency, productivity of above four CPU'S ?
>
> regards Dariusz

In article <26D1AD4A-CC8C-4E15-8B13-380CB861BD4C@newsgroup>,
Dariusz@newsgroup says...

>
> Does SBS 2003 Premium work properly on QUAD XEON server with 16Gb memory on
> board ? What will be efficiency, productivity of above four CPU'S ?
>
> regards Dariusz

SBS2003 will install on a Dual Quad Core server, but it will only use
8GB of RAM.

The biggest problem I've seen with 8 cores is that many SQL based apps
are poorly written and you need to limit the query threshold to 3 so
that you don't run into massive locking issues.

If you're not using SQL on the box then you're very unlikely to see any
benefit from 8 cores, but, you will see benefit from TWO CPU's with Dual
Cores vs a Single CPU with Quad Core.

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In article <C9A93972-45E1-44C8-A91D-F6BCEBDD8C6E@newsgroup>,
support@newsgroup says...

>
> SBS2003 will only support 2 Physical CPU's
> And Only see 4GB
>
> So any Extra will be a waste of money.
>
> Sorry
> Russ

Russ, 2 CPU's, but each CPU can have any number of Cores - I have a
number of Dual CPU Quad Core systems with SQL running and it makes use
of all cores across both CPU's.

As a matter of fact, I normally manually set SQL to use Cores 1,3,5,7
and leave Windows 0 and all others - it does make a difference.

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How will it use 8 GB of RAM?

"Leythos" <spam999free@newsgroup> wrote in message
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> In article <26D1AD4A-CC8C-4E15-8B13-380CB861BD4C@newsgroup>,
> Dariusz@newsgroup says...

>>
>> Does SBS 2003 Premium work properly on QUAD XEON server with 16Gb memory
>> on
>> board ? What will be efficiency, productivity of above four CPU'S ?
>>
>> regards Dariusz

>
> SBS2003 will install on a Dual Quad Core server, but it will only use
> 8GB of RAM.
>
> The biggest problem I've seen with 8 cores is that many SQL based apps
> are poorly written and you need to limit the query threshold to 3 so
> that you don't run into massive locking issues.
>
> If you're not using SQL on the box then you're very unlikely to see any
> benefit from 8 cores, but, you will see benefit from TWO CPU's with Dual
> Cores vs a Single CPU with Quad Core.
>
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> You can't trust your best friends, your five senses, only the little
> voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
> Trust yourself.
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In article <#6v7#vdFKHA.3392@newsgroup>, newsgroup@newsgroup
says...

>
> How will it use 8 GB of RAM?

Sorry, that was a mistake, 4GB is all it uses, but, on many quality
servers you can MIRROR ram - so that 8GB in pairs is actually 4GB and if
one stick/bank fails the MIRROR stick takes over, but that's a server
thing.

SBS 2003 will use Dual Quad Core CPU's - Cores don't matter, only the
physical number of CPU's and if you watch a loaded SBS server with SQL,
you will see that it uses all 8 Cores under real load.

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