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

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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