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Subject: Re: Which is faster Quad xeon or dual pIII933

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 13:24:59 02/21/01

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On February 21, 2001 at 16:16:15, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On February 21, 2001 at 15:03:15, Laurence Chen wrote:
>
>>On February 21, 2001 at 14:08:25, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I ask the question because I am interested to know which program has hardware
>>>advantage(Diep or the other parallel programs).
>>>
>>>Uri
>>Well, it depends, the new Xeon is based on the Pentium III design, so your
>>question does not make much sense, mainly because, you forgot to specify the
>>speed of the Xeon's.  There are Xeon's which run on 1GHz, so a Quad Xeon running
>>on 1GHz would be much faster than a dual Pentium III running at 933 MHz.
>>Regards,
>>Laurence
>
>
>fastest quad-certified xeons are 700mhz so far as I know...  there are dual-
>xeon boards that go faster...

Correct. The following is from a table from:

http://www.intel.com/pentiumiii/xeon/home.htm?iid=intelhome+roll_P3XP&



Available  cache sizes  Available MHz speed
2-way      256K         1 GHz, 933 MHz, 866 MHz, 800 MHz,
                        733 MHz, 667 MHz, 600 MHz
4-way      1MB, 2MB     700MHz, 550MHz
8-way      1MB, 2MB     700MHz, 550MHz




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