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Originally Posted by Stuart W
I'm still running a dual CPU Pentium200Pro with 64M of EDO RAM as my domain controler / file server.
You realy don't need some high spec monster if you are only accessing from a few PC's over your LAN, unless you need realy high speed data transfer (like maybee running gigabit round the house!)
Oh, and the roaming profiles overhead is too small to be worth considering  |
At work, a while back, I set up perfomance counters to monitor the CPU usage of each of our domain controllers. I found that the Backup DCs got hit a lot more often than the PDC, but obviously, if we only had a PDC, then that would get hit more.
In all cases, the processor was used so little that I would say it doesn't really matter what spec processor is installed. As you said, Data Transfer rate, and as other people have said, amount of memory (2K3 server disk caching is efficient, but does require a lot of memory) is more important.