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Subject: Re: Intel Xeon information

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 16:04:36 01/15/03

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On January 15, 2003 at 18:14:50, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On January 15, 2003 at 17:43:47, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On January 15, 2003 at 15:21:00, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On January 15, 2003 at 12:56:07, pavel wrote:
>>>
>>>>Robert,
>>>>         I must have missed this in your earlier discussion, but how much
>>>>speedup are you getting on this Xeon? Did you replace your older ones with the
>>>>new ones already?
>>>>
>>>>Cheers,
>>>>pavs
>>>
>>>
>>>I simply replaced my quad 700 with a dual 2.8.  It is somewhere around 2x
>>>faster,
>>>overall...
>>
>>
>Therefore, the 8x 1000 Mhz used vs Kramnik is roughly almost the same speed as
>the newer dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz.
>
>PS: I'm NOT comparing these two systems Mhz Per Mhz since 8x1000 = 8000 Ghz,
>whereas 2 x 2.8 = 5.6 Ghz, but the performance difference should be roughly
>equal using the Newer Dual Xeon 2.8/533.
>
>Pichard


I highly doubt that. You seem to be forgetting that the P3's are faster MHz for
MHz than the Pentium 4 chips. It roughly takes a P4-1.6GHz to equal one P3-1GHz.

Also, about the "400/533mhz" bus business, it's not actually 400mhz or 533mhz.
It's just quad pumped (four data transfers per cycle). Thus a "400MHz" p4 bus is
actually 100MHz and a "533" is 133. Same goes for DDR (double pumped, two
transfers per cycle). I prefer DDR over RDRAM. DDR is much more efficient
(actually does what it's rated for). The PC1066 RDRAM only pulls around 3.2gb/s
actual but 240MHz(480) DDR hits 3.7gb/s easily (on an Nforce2 board). ;)



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