it did answer my question.
pentium seems to be where i'm leaning due to the business applications i will be running.
I think > 3ghz is overkill for us. The software developers use a 800 mhz FSB and 1mb L2 cache. The chip & mobo i'm looking at are Supermicro & Pentium 4 3.0ghz, and they exceed the requirements.
i'm gonna go with 512mb memory. It's a simple Borland and SQL server respectively. If anything i might go for a gig, but i'm sure 512 is more than enough.
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