Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:28:42 -0700 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current hardware choices. Message-ID: <200002132128.OAA45524@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:23:40 MST." <20000213142340.A7998@panzer.kdm.org>
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> On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 13:37:46 -0700, Steve Passe wrote: > ... > > --- > > 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 c= hips cut-n-paste error, I knew that! > with 256K cache would perform all that well in a 4-way SMP setup. In a= ny > case, the new Coppermine Xeons only support 2-way SMP, so you'll have t= o 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 motherboa= rd > 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 t= he > price up to ~$110,000.) I was just looking at that server on the intel site: OCPRF100, but I couldn't find it listed on any of the web price engines. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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