Re: Build your own Motherboards (was Re: AMD K6 233 Cpu 465 BogoMips??)

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Sun, 6 Sep 1998 00:07:00 -0400 (EDT)


That Xenon is running at 400mhz has DOUBLE the L1 cache (and it's 4way)
and has MMX. In other words, quite a bit better then the PRO..

I've got a nice dual pro board here, but the chips are too damn expensive
when compaired to the PIIs..

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Alex Buell wrote:

> On 6 Sep 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > They never will -- Intel is pulling the plug on the PPro's in favour
> > of the Xeon.
>
> Actually one can pick up a PPro 200 w/1024k L2 cache for something like
> $750 ea. But still, that's way beyond my means, unfortunately, or I'd have
> bought two of these by now. If the price were to drop to $250.. that'd be
> a different story.
>
> I've just checked and a Xeon w/1024k L2 cache costs something like $3300.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
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