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Subject: Re: What kind of difference will the Xeon's with 2MB of Cache make?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:01:01 01/24/02

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On January 24, 2002 at 15:03:41, Joshua Lee wrote:

>I was wondering let's say you had two systems play each other one with a quad
>700 or 900 with 1MB cache per cpu and the other 2MB how will this effect the
>results if at all and how would a Dual P4 Xeon at 2.2Ghz compare?
>
>How i understood it was that a dual will get on average 1.7x the performance and
>a quad 3.1x  so for a 900Mhz   900x3.1  2.790Ghz
>for the Dual P4 2.2Ghz  2200x 1.7  3.740Ghz     but if this is the case why
>would people shell out thousands and thousands of dollars for the P3 Xeons with
>a meg or two of cache?   I figured there must be a reason ... Maybe someone can
>clear this up.    Thankyou


I tried it and could hardly tell the difference.  The best way to see the
difference in the two is to weigh your wallet after you buy 4 of 'em.  :)




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