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Subject: Re: Dual and quad xeon

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:23:49 03/21/01

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On March 21, 2001 at 12:33:16, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:

>On March 20, 2001 at 10:18:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On March 20, 2001 at 01:28:42, Lonnie Cook wrote:
>>
>>>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_.
>>>
>
>In today's news.
>
>The 900MHz PIII Xeon costs $3692 in batches of 1000.
>
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/17755.html


I had heard of this some time back.  But had heard two other things
recently:

1.  900mhz versions only come in the 2mb L2 cache versions.  This is going to
hold their price above $3,000 forever.  Too pricey.

2.  900mhz parts are not yet shipping according to an Intel VAR I talked to
recently.  These will apparently work in my SC450NX chassis, as they will
work with 100mhz and 133mhz bus speeds (my SC is 100mhz).  But I would not
consider buying them at that price...  And there are _no_ plans to make a
1mb  900mhz xeon at all, which means no $1,000 cpus period.

It's a shame...



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