Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:34:42 02/22/01
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On February 22, 2001 at 02:33:34, enrico carrisco wrote: >>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. I tried this a good while back and didn't notice any particular advantage when I ran crafty. The newer xeons have a better core, but for me, the larger L2 doesn't particularly mean "better".
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