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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (89141)1/24/2000 1:09:00 AM
From: Petz  Read Replies (2) of 1584437
 
Bill, re:<Daiki's info that FC PGA Coppermines might have SMP disabled>

I'll let Process Boy find out whether the disabling is "for real" or just untested. But it does make sense to disable it so that server manufacturers are forced to use higher-priced xeon chips. I mean, a Pentium III Xeon 550 with 512K cache costs about $900. It will obviously be outperformed by a Pentium III 600E Coppermine at less than $400, the Coppermine supports SMP. The lower latency and faster bandwidth to the L2 cache of the Coppermine would vastly outweigh the over-hyped benefit of 512K vs. 256K.

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