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To: Elmer who wrote (84340)	12/29/1999 10:00:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583499

Elmer, Re: I don't think this is correct. Have you heard of this before? Re: "The most recent Xeons contain 512KB of integrated cache" I believe they mean the Cumine based Xeon which has 256KB cache but sold in Xeon (Slot 2) form factor. BTW, seems that Intel has mastered this integrated cache process quite well. Gary

To: Elmer who wrote (84340)	12/29/1999 10:16:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1583499

Elmer - Re: "I don't think this is correct. Have you heard of this before?" In fact, this is wrong. There was a recent report that HP and IBM or Dell or Compaq found that a 733 MHz Xeon was not significantly faster than a Coppermine 733 MHz (Duh ! - they contain the same CPU with the same L2 cache) and the L2 cache is only 256 KiloBytes. A jump to 1,024 and 2,048 KiloBytes should have a significant impact in 4 and 8-way SMP systems with lots of bus traffic. Maybe Tom Uberclockermeister will post some benchmarks soon ! Paul