[plug] decent INTEL SMP boxes in Perth?

[Nick Bannon]

On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 04:30:02PM +0800, David Griffiths wrote:
[...]
> I discovered that the secondary cache size makes a HUGE difference in the
> price of these critters
> eg very rough pricing -
> 
> 	xeon 550 MHz 512k cache ~ $2,000 tax inc
>         xeon 550 MHz 1M cache   ~ $5,000 (lots of variation here, due to
> different kits?)
>         xeon 500 MHz 2M cache   ~ $11,000 ex tax - ouch!
[...]

Mind you, with the right application, the performance difference can be
worth it. (perhaps a big database which has to run on Intel?)

Of course, by the time someone's buying a quad 2MB Xeon, anyone sane
would recompile their application if they could, for a more scalable box,
probably running on Alpha, MIPS or SPARC CPUs. Some of those can take
vast amount of cache.

Nick.

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