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Any price premium paid for a Xeon system is wasted money. The original Xeon
(Pentium II) had some value because it offered a full speed front-side bus
when the mainstream processors had an off-die cache so could only run the
FSB at half speed. But since the cache went on-die at full speed for the
P-III and P-IV, the benefits of Xeon became minimal. A few management
features that are useful for servers only is about it. In 1999, Barrett
promised to give the Xeon cutting edge technology in advance of the main
processors, but his promise was voided within days - competition from AMD
simply will not allow Intel to sit on tech features for the sub-$500 line.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Fritz [mailto:fritz@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 9:04 PM
To: ChasW
Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: OFF - TOPIC: dual xeoon
Gary, where did you get the dual xeon system for this $900...?
>From an HP reseller. I'd rather not post his name to the list (that's too
much like advertising) but you can contact me if you're interested.
BTW that $900 price did NOT include OS. Adding Win2k Pro boosts it another
$100 or so.
Gary
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