RE: A Question about Dual CPU systems

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

The marking folks at Intel are pretty smart.  Here is what they
did when they went from the Pentium III to the Pentium IV.

They figured correctly that "Joe Consumer" who shops at Best Buy
knows only one thing about computers "more Gigahurts is goodder"

So in one brilliant move, they simplified the CPU logic so that it now
takes more clock cycles per operation and then run up the clock speed
so that now a 1Ghz P-III is about equal to a 1.4Ghz P-IV but the
P-IV is on a smaller die and costs less to manufacture.  The Intel
bean counters are happy. Joe sees a higher clock speed and is happy
too.

People who know what's up buy the Athalon XP/MP but Intel doesn't
care as people who know what's up account for about 0.01% of the
PC market. 

Sun is selling $995.00 SPARC based boxes now.  These shouldn't be
overlooked.  They only run at 500Hmz but they are full 64 bit CPUs
that do fast floating point and the box is only 1U tall.



--- Bob Dubner <rdubner@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> Whether you go dual or single, I have some experience with
> floating-point
> number-crunching applications running under Windows.
> 
> Think Athlon.
> 
> Athlon CPU chips are cheaper, clock cycle for clock cycle, than
> Pentium
> chips.  And their floating-point unit is more efficient.  In my
> experience,
<SNIP>

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