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Subject: Re: strength of F6 on Siemens Primenergy(sp?)vs Dutch Champs hardware???

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:33:40 05/20/00

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On May 20, 2000 at 06:06:21, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:

>On May 19, 2000 at 20:52:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 19, 2000 at 18:40:57, Djordje Vidanovic wrote:
>>
>>>On May 19, 2000 at 16:08:37, Drazen Marovic wrote:
>>>
>>>>What's the estimated elo difference?
>>>
>>>Watch out for the spelling.  It's the Siemens _Primergy_ machine.  Wondrous
>>>hardware.
>>>
>>>***  Djordje
>>
>>
>>What are its characteristics?  IE I have seen a Dell 8-way xeon box up
>>close...
>
>This is the standard version of Primergy -- up to 4 processors.  Fritz used the
>8 processor box...
>
>The Primergy 870-Edition can be fitted with up to 4 Pentium III Xeon processors.
>The processor board of the PRIMERGY 870-Edition consists of individually
>pluggable CPU modules. This makes it easy to increase processor performance or
>upgrade to future Intel IA32 processors as new CPU modules can be inserted...
>
>The minimum RAM configuration is 128 MB, and this can be upgraded to max. 4 GB.
>
>More info at www.siemens.com
>
>***  Djordje


OK... that is just a standard 4-way box.  All that I have seen (including the
11 4-way boxes I have here) all have pluggable processor boards, and could have
less than 4 cpus with terminators plugged into empty slots.



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