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To: Joe NYC who wrote (41634)	5/30/2001 6:13:29 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

Jozef, Does intel sell xeona in matched sets of 2 or 4 at premium prices or do you just buy as many identical parts as needed and plug them in.? I recall seeing matched P-Pros on ebay. Of course the cache sizes probably need to match Bill

To: Joe NYC who wrote (41634)	5/30/2001 9:57:13 AM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 275872

Joe, >When someone puts a super duper Xeon CPU in a 2-way box, the same CPU will go into 4 way box, except twice as many CPUs. Sorry Joe, that's not true. This IBM 4-way uses 700 MHz big cache Xeon (1 MB or 2 MB), or 900 MHz 2 MB). www5.pc.ibm.com This 2-way uses regular PIIIs with 256K cache. The small cache Xeon is not use much anymore because its only value adds are some manageability functions that the IBMs do external to the chip. So, 1, 2 way: vanilla PIII; 4, 8 way and up: big cache Xeon, which costs somewhere between 1K and 2K, approximately. All of the other major OEMs that have a complete product line do the same: 1s and 2s: PIII, 4s and 8s: big cache Xeon. www5.pc.ibm.com The other part of your argument: I read rudedog's post, and I believe (I could be wrong) he commits the same error as Tony Viola, when talking about revenues from 4+ way servers. They are talking end products, the machines, not the components that go into them. I never tried to claim Intel got the end product (server) revenue. I doubt very much if Rudedog said that either. Tony