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Date:      Sun, 13 Feb 2000 14:31:35 -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:  <20000213143135.A8161@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <200002132128.OAA45524@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>; from smp@csn.net on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 02:28:42PM -0700
References:  <20000213142340.A7998@panzer.kdm.org> <200002132128.OAA45524@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>

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On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 14:28:42 -0700, Steve Passe wrote:
> > 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 chips
> cut-n-paste error, I knew that!

Heh. :)

> > 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.)
> 
> 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.

Yeah, I looked around for a Profusion server from some of the clone-type
places, but I wasn't able to find it.  All I found were the 4-way SMP
servers.  It looks like you have to go with one of the big vendors to get
a Profusion box.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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