Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:00:39 03/19/01
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On March 19, 2001 at 16:39:16, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >Does anyone have any insight/experience with either Dual or Quad xeon cpu's? >What would be the price of a motherboard that can run a Quad 1ghz xeon? >And what is the price of a dual xeon 1 ghz solution? There are currently no quad 1000's running. The fastest quad-certified Xeon is 700mhz. Also the only two cache choices are 1M and 2M. I bought 4 1-meg L2 700mhz xeons a month or two back and paid about 1300 bucks _each_. The dual MBs are much more reasonable and there is no need to resort to xeon processors for duals... I would go for a normal PIII/1ghz X 2 system, which would be very fast indeed. > >Would a dual xeon 1 ghz be better/faster than a dual T-Bird 1.2 ghz? Yes... since I don't think you can get a dual 1.2ghz tbird at present. :) >Any insight would be appreciated since i am thinking of going Dual/Qaud with >either the xeon or with the upcoming release of the T-bird dual solution. For a quad box, prepare to spend about 9-10 thousand dollars. You can find the following prices if you look hard: Intel SC450NX chassis (3 400 wat power supplies, 6-slot hot-swap SCSI RAID disk cage, 11 fans, three on-board SCSI controllers, built-in video, etc. That will run you $2,500. 4 700mhz cpus. 5,200 dollars. 512mb of ram. Maybe 500 bucks if you are lucky. Then you add on the disk drives you want (LVDS SCA scsi drives). Typical prices are 18 gigs for 500 bucks or so. > >The above is ofcause ralated to the performance with chess programs and what >solutions would be best for cpu chess, i apologize for being slightly off topic, >but where else can one get such insight in both the raw cpu performance and >chessprogram performance. > >Tanks in advance >Jonas
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