> I do wonder what the speeds would be like for Prime95/NTPrime on a 1MB vs.
> 2MB Xeon... Anyone have the chance to test that out?
I just got my hands on a dual P3-Xeon 600MHz 256kB cache 133Mhz bus machine
at work, running Linux. I'll have to play with some benchmarking next week.
-jrp
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>The Athlon not only supports SMP, but it does it the, IMHO, Right Way(tm).
>They use a point to point bus between the processor and the core logic.
>Hence, a SMP Athlon system has no shared bus. Each processor gets
>a pipe to
>the core logic and it has however many pipes to memory/IO that it wan
> And dont the K6-III and Athlon support an L3 design, using slower memory
> of
> course, but dedicated to each CPU so eliminating bus contention? Of
> course,
> the K6-III doesn't do SMP, but the Athlon supports it, doesn't it? Are
> there any SMP motherboards out there yet for the Athlon?
>
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>There's previously been several posts discussing the performance penalty
>one suffers when running multiple LL tests on a multiprocessor system
>with a single shared system bus. It would be interesting to see
>whether this
>penalty could be alleviated in a reasonably cost-effective fashion throug
