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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