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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (38794)	5/10/2001 3:15:34 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

On limited speed of Athlon servers, maybe the Athlon 4's in this thing have more than 256K of L2, and that limits clock speed. After all, Xeon with >256K cache have always lagged way behind CuMines. Petz

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (38794)	5/10/2001 9:32:35 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"Is it that important to stack these so high?" Yep. If you want the most computing power per square foot, this is the way to do it. There is a market for it, just look at RLX. The cases and racks are standard, I dunno if it is true, but they look just like the instrument racks that are used in labs and sound studios. The whole thing is standardized with the hole patterns and mounting brackets. The 1U looks like the boxes we used to put keyboards in...

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (38794)	5/10/2001 10:31:28 AM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

More Rackserver stuff. According to their site, you can get near equivalent systems between PIII and Palominos configured. The differences are the PIII is at 1GHz with Intel 82559 for the dual ethernet, and the Palomino is at 1.2GHz with 3Com dual ethernet. The PIII system has the SuperMicro 370DER motherboard because it uses interleaved PC133 memory, the closest they come to PC2100 DDR. The Palomino system checks in at $2959 and the PIII is at $3549, the bulk of the difference seems to be the price of the motherboard. Based on this, the price of the Palomino's might be closer to the PIII price than the current chips. Yeah, I know, but this is the only price we have right now...