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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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