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

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 23:33:34 02/21/01

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>The new xeons _are_ coppermine core so far as I know.  The main difference
>is that the new xeons only come in 1M and 2M L2 cache sizes, the old 512K
>L2 has been discontinued.  My quad 700 is 1M as the 2M chips are incredibly
>expensive (the 1M chips were 1300 bucks each when I upgraded my machine).
>
>I found the 700's were almost 50% faster running crafty than the PIII/550's
>I had before...

What would be your estimation of the performance increase if you'd opted for the
2M cache? (specific to crafty...)

-elc.



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