Author: fca
Date: 10:20:30 07/17/98
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On July 16, 1998 at 16:25:12, Rajen Gupta wrote: >i have heard 2 contrary reports a)The 450 MHz PII is due at the end of this >month; b)it is due at the end of this year: can someone enlighten me? a) is correct; L1 cache 512Kb @225MHz And Xeon/450 arrives with it, with upto 2Mb L1 cache @ 450MHz. Price ratio between the two is expected to be up to >5 times. Having examined some technical documentation (sorry - have this on paper only by faxback) I think for chess purposes the advantage of the biggest Xeon will be c 10%. So, does not justify a >400% price diff, IMO. Kind regards fca PS: The Intel roadmap is on Tom's Hardware Guide. Do a web search for it with a Search Engine....
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