* Arjen van der Meijden: > For a database system, however, processors hardly ever are the main > bottleneck, are they? Not directly, but the choice of processor influences which chipsets/mainboards are available, which in turn has some impact on the number of RAM slots. (According to our hardware supplier, beyound 8 GB, the price per GB goes up sharply.) Unfortunately, it seems that the Core 2 Duo mainboards do not change that much in this area. -- Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxx> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Durlacher Allee 47 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76131 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99