no <no[at]no.com> wrote:

> BTW, what are the quake scores for a DUAL p4 3.2 and a dual xeon (both
> with a 9800 pro video card)

According to the WWDC Keynote, there's no such thing as a dual-P4
system.

Jim
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On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 03:16:04 +0000 (UTC), "James Boswell"
<JamesBoswell[at]Btopenworld.com> wrote:

>Jim <jim[at]magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>> no <no[at]no.com> wrote:
>>
>>> BTW, what are the quake scores for a DUAL p4 3.2 and a dual xeon (both
>>> with a 9800 pro video card)
>>
>> According to the WWDC Keynote, there's no such thing as a dual-P4
>> system.
>
>According to me, there's no such thing as a dual "P4" system.
>
>If you wanna run an SMP rig, you need to splash out on Xeons, the silicon
>itself is austensibly a P4, but unlike a chip labelled "Pentium 4" on the
>box, they'll work in SMP.
>
>-JB
>

Actually they are labelled Pentium 4. They are called "Pentium 4 -
Xeons" as opposed to Pentium III Xeons and the original Xeons based on
the Pentium II.


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Josiah Fizer <jfizer[at]classy.com> wrote:
><JamesBoswell[at]Btopenworld.com> wrote:
>>Jim <jim[at]magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>>> no <no[at]no.com> wrote:
>>>> BTW, what are the quake scores for a DUAL p4 3.2 and a dual xeon (both
>>>> with a 9800 pro video card)
>>>
>>> According to the WWDC Keynote, there's no such thing as a dual-P4
>>> system.
>>
>>According to me, there's no such thing as a dual "P4" system.
>>
>>If you wanna run an SMP rig, you need to splash out on Xeons, the silicon
>>itself is austensibly a P4, but unlike a chip labelled "Pentium 4" on the
>>box, they'll work in SMP.
>
>Actually they are labelled Pentium 4. They are called "Pentium 4 -
>Xeons" as opposed to Pentium III Xeons and the original Xeons based on
>the Pentium II.

Intel's own Xeon web page makes no mention of the "Pentium 4" brand.
They call the older Pentium III Xeons exactly that, but the current
Xeon processors are just called Intel Xeon processors. All of the
Xeon images I can find in Google Images just say "Xeon", but I'm not
sure if that's faithful to the actual packaging.

In any case, there's no such thing as a dual P4 3.2 system regardless
of whether a Xeon is a P4, which is the main point of Jim's post.

-- Erick