Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:23:40 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current hardware choices. Message-ID: <20000213142340.A7998@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <200002132037.NAA44926@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>; from smp@csn.net on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 01:37:46PM -0700 References: <200002132037.NAA44926@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 13:37:46 -0700, Steve Passe wrote: > Hi, > > I need to spend some cash b4 the end of the first tax quarter, so... > > What makes the most sense for a quad SMP box today? > > --- > The Intel SC450NX is available for around $3500, > PentiumŪ II Xeon 400MHz MMX w/1024K 1MB cache - OEM PULLS are available > for $200, > New boxed PIII Xeon 500MHz w/512K cache go for around $950, > > What would give overall better performance the extra cache, or the > extra MHz? > > --- > New boxed PIII Xeon 733MHz w/512K cache coppermine go for $750, > will any coppermine capable quad boards be available anytime in the > forseeable future? > > Do they even make sense for a quad system, eg. the very small cache? The Coppermine Xeons have 256K cache, not 512K, AFAIK. I don't think chips with 256K cache would perform all that well in a 4-way SMP setup. In any case, the new Coppermine Xeons only support 2-way SMP, so you'll have to go with a 550MHz or slower Xeon to do 4-way SMP. If you really want to spend some money, you should go for an 8-way box based on the Profusion chipset. :) IIRC, the Intel Profusion motherboard has something like 10 64bit PCI slots, 4 of them at 66MHz. :) (A month or two ago, I had fun with the configuration tool on Dell's web site, and managed to load enough options on one of their 8-way servers to drive the price up to ~$110,000.) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the messagehome | help
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