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Executive Summary

Selecting the right server to keep your organization’s small work group,

remote office, or department up and running is no easy task. The decision

is usually made less easy by the range of choices between competing

technologies made available from the various server vendors. Sometimes

the choice, with the proper information, can be a non-issue as in the choice

between the Intel Pentium

®

III and the Intel Pentium III Xeon processors in a

dual processor server.

It is important to remember that from both a functionality and performance

point-of-view, the

Intel Pentium III processor is virtually the same as

the

Intel Pentium III Xeon processor. The only minor difference,

respectively, is the “slot 1” vs the “slot 2” form factor. In other words, they are

the same technology in different packages. The microprocessor inside the

package is exactly the same.

A Closer Look

There are two ways to compare competitive products: a line-by-line

comparison of the specifications on paper and a comparison of the

performance. In both cases, with the exception of the form factor, there is no

appreciable difference between the two processors.

Specifications

Table 1 shows a comparison between the key features of the

Intel

Pentium III and

Intel Pentium III Xeon processors. As can be seen, the

only difference is the form factor that each processor takes.