Xeon vs. Pentium4

[Stupid Boy]

Other than the price difference, the FSB speed, the Xeon's ability to be used in SMP and the difference in cache size, how are the new Xeons and Pentium 4's different?

Thanks

[nikhsub1]

I think you answered your own question ;)

[Stupid Boy]

Originally posted by nikhsub1
I think you answered your own question ;)

I thought so too, but Xeons still don't seem good enough to be two to four times the price of P4s.

[cack01]

Looks like your right again.

[tgxiii]

Companies tend to make you pay a premium for SMP capabilities. For example, the Athlon XP and MP chips. They are basically the same processors, except the MPs are modified a bit so that they can run on dual proc boards.

[TC]

Look at AMD MP's vs. XP......... same chip, expensive copper bridge on top ;)

[tom10167]

You guys think that's bad, at work Xeon MPs cost about $3,000 a piece where the regular Xeons are about $450.

:eek:

[Mr. $T$]

Originally posted by tom10167
You guys think that's bad, at work Xeon MPs cost about $3,000 a piece where the regular Xeons are about $450.

:eek:

Wow :/

Corporations are also not afraid to spend 30k on a server.

[TC]

Well at least the xeon MP's have more cache......