CPUs (wasRe: [Gllug] Install problems again)

[Ian Norton]

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 
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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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