View Full Version : Intel to ship 'Potomac' Xeon MP this month
SLaY3r07
03-19-2005, 09:44 AM
On March 29, Intel will ship its Potomac Xeon bundled w/ Twin Castle E8500 chipset codenamed "Truland". This Xeon will have 8MB of L3 Cache and will run at 3.33GHZ. Wonder what the cost is :p:
Source (http://www.theregister.com/2005/03/18/intel_29_march_potomac/)
skate2snow
03-19-2005, 09:50 AM
TBH,,, MP processors are far from my interests:D.
matt9669
03-19-2005, 05:28 PM
The Xeon MP line is well designed for its task, which is database management, webservers, and other enterprise applications. Xeon MP chips do not perform well in desktop applications (the huge L3 cache is not of much help in games etc.) and typically cost >$1000/processor.
Basically, unless you have 20K to drop on a Dell server, these are not for us :D
SLaY3r07
03-21-2005, 05:31 PM
The price will be for one Xeon MP: $3700 (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21983)
matt9669
03-21-2005, 05:37 PM
Damn, that's even more than I expected . . .
SLaY3r07
03-21-2005, 06:21 PM
Damn, that's even more than I expected . . .
Same here, thats an insane price :rolleyes:
shadowing
03-21-2005, 06:31 PM
Too insane. :D Wonder what apps it would only help in.
matt9669
03-21-2005, 07:12 PM
Generally servers that process high request loads from smaller queues/stacks/databases benefit greatly from large caches, SQL/Apache and the like. Scientific modeling sometimes benefits as well.
However, in large databases, the storage I/O bandwidth/latency becomes the bottleneck . . .