CPUs (wasRe: [Gllug] Install problems again)
Ian Norton
bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Sat Jan 11 13:19:39 UTC 2003
isnt the X range of intel chips just souped up ARM chips?
Chris Bell wrote:
>On Fri 10 Jan, Jason Clifford wrote:
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>>Initially P4 CPUs offered less performance than P3 chips even though rated
>>higher.
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>>That situation has been remedied for quite some time and P4 CPUs are no
>>longer a performance problem.
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>>What is an issue is the power requirement and heat radiation however I
>>cannot say to what extent as I've not yet implemented P4 servers - memory
>>and disk subsystem performance are a lot more important for a server than
>>CPU performance given how powerful even the lowest entry level CPU is
>>these days.
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> I have not seen much about the new Intel wide RISC chips, (X-range?).
>Perhaps the peripherals and add-ons would need to be redesigned, making them
>too expensive compared with a standard PC.
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