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Subject: RE: Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte
 890BPA-UD3H	and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.
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Gary Gatten writes:

>  Yes, generally speaking "more" of something is always better, in
>  fact our government seems to think more debt is better than less.
>  However, if you're web apps only need xGB of RAM and y MIPS; what
>  benefit is it to have n * x RAM and n * y MIPS?

	It is my understanding surplus RAM will be allocated to
file-caching.  Whether this benefits your particular application set
I would have no idea.

	Respectfully,


					Robert Huff