Steve, typical that you'd say something like "Sabre mobo still sucks" off of this quote from the YUK Register: "According to a reliable source close to Intel's plans, the Sabre chipset still needs tweaking and performance is not as good as it should be for eight-way SMP server performance." Seems like quite a jump from "not as good" to "sucks."
First of all, the Sabre is a motherboard. The chipset is called Profusion. But as we all know, the Register doesn't concern themselves with verifying accuracy.
Second, I wonder how good the performance should be, according to that "reliable source." I'd say that any 8-way server that can take on the big boys for well under $100K is pretty good.
Third, the Register also says this: "Systems which do not use the Sabre board, such as the Compaq ProLiant eight-way box, do not suffer from such performance constraints, according to the source." I wonder what they are talking about, since it's hard for me to imagine any performance problems caused by motherboard concerns. I can understand the chipset hurting performance, but not the motherboard, unless the problem is rather complex.
Finally, if the "Sabre motherboard still sucks" in your opinion, why would major OEMs like Dell be using it right now?
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