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Subject: Re: Deep Sjeng testers wanted

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 17:59:37 08/31/02

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On August 31, 2002 at 06:17:24, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On August 30, 2002 at 23:41:03, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On August 30, 2002 at 22:52:24, Brandon wrote:
>>
>>>There are no official quad 2.2 Ghz + machines out there. People advertise
>>>Dual/Quad Xeon 2.2 Ghz because of the hyperthreading.. but no machine with 4
>>>actual cpus at 2.2 Ghz.... yet...
>>>
>>> - Brandon
>>
>>There is definitely _one_ out there.  I personally saw the boot output from
>>linux and it reported 8 cpus at 2.2ghz each, which is what a 4-cpu machine
>>with hyper-threading looks like under linux.
>>
>>It might well be a prototype, because as you mention, I couldn't find any
>>official ads anywhere for such a box...
>
>after searching with altavista
>http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/web?pg=aq&avkw=tgz&aqmode=s&aqa=chipset+%22Quad+Xeon%22+pentium+4&aqp=&aqn=&aqb=&aqs=&kl=XX&dt=tmperiod&d2=3&d0=&d1=&rc=rgn&sgr=all&swd=&lh=&sc=on&nbq=10&stq=10
>
>and searching on, the intel site , i can conclude that configuration is strange
>and unsupported officially by intel processor :
>
>http://www.intel.com/products/server/processors/server/xeon/index.htm?iid=search+XeonDP
>http://www.intel.com/products/server/processors/server/xeon_mp/index.htm?iid=search+XeonMP
>
>The faster pentium 4 how support 4 way (MP) run at 1.60 Ghz and "with 1 MB of
>Level 3 cache is priced at $3,692 in 1,000-unit quantities"

this is very old and outdated propaganda. i can show you the
AMD press releases of a year or 5 ago announcing a 8 processor K7.
I am pretty sure they have tried to build a machine with 8 cpu k7s
in order to find out it didn't work and was hard to get to work too,
just like they have actually built quad and probably also 8 cpu P4s which
simply never ran stable.

In short there is always a dude who tries it in order to find out it
doesn't work.

Best regards,
Vincent



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