Author: Lonnie Cook
Date: 23:28:07 05/31/01
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On May 31, 2001 at 22:57:55, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 31, 2001 at 22:14:11, K. Burcham wrote: > >>this baby should hit about 2225 kns. >>(aint that a waste of transistors---dang bottlenecks) >> >>cant find a site that has tested this processor (i saw intels tests) >>wonder if the xeon is as slow as the pentium 4. >> >> >>i noticed that dell has a system available with dual 1700 xeons. >>i put one together online, just the tower, ran about $4800 with >>1 gig ram (800mhz), and one ide hard drive. >> >>so i started looking to see if the individual components are available, >>to assemble at home. well you know how that is---they are at the sites, >>but if you can actually get them---not sure. > > > >There is _really_ something wrong here. I just bought 4 700mhz xeons 2 >months ago. They sold for $1,300 each (1mb L2 versions). Are these _really_ >"xeon" processors with large L2 cache? The pricing defies any logic I can >find on Pricewatch... Bob, considering the Dual 1.7Ghz with 256K L2 vs. your Quad 700 Xeon 1MB ... What do you personally feel as to the speed difference between the two configs? U think the Dual 1.7GHz would run a better benchmark for crafty, pros, cons?
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