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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (151512)	2/23/2005 11:13:51 AM
From: Rink	Read Replies (2) of 275872

Elmer, re: The Xeons used were plain 1Meg L2 versions and still they beat the best Opteron systems by a wide margin. They didn't even use the new 2Meg L2 ones much less the upcoming 8Meg Potomacs. You know as well as anyone else here that Potomacs won't nearly get as much of a speed up as plain vanilla 1MB Xeons because the more cache is on the cpu the less speed up the system gets from next level (e.g. L4) cache in the chipset. Yours is an empty claim, especially when considering dual core Opterons will be released in the same time frame as the X3 chipset from IBM. That's what the article explained too. You can cry victory, but there is none. To be complete: The chipset is also proprietary. It is also costly. Still, as they make plain vanilla Xeons perform well in a 4-way system it'll save customers looking for Intel-only solutions money and hence will sell comparatively well. Lastly a year from now or so it will also greatly speed up the 2*1MB dual core netburst Xeons. Regards, Rink

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