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Subject: Re: Dual and quad xeon

Author: Chuck

Date: 15:31:19 03/19/01

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On March 19, 2001 at 17:00:39, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.  :)
>

True. However, last I heard (you can go to amd.com to get an update) was that
AMD on SMP would be available this summer. I hope the competition will favor us
in the pricetag. : )

>
>
>>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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