From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 17:26:22 +0000 Subject: Re: Ultra AXmp Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org Robert G. Brown wrote: > The current 440BX systems have a 100 MHz memory bus (50% faster than > the old PPro/PII bus but still slower than one would like). As I > learned very forcefully recently, their cache speed is half the CPU > clock, so a 400 MHz CPU has a cache running at 200 MHz, making it > finally the equal or superior of the PPro in every respect. That was so until just over a week ago. The Xeon version of the Pentium II runs the L2 cache at processor speed. So far as I can see, this has a minimal effect on improving performance. The only plus is being able to run 8 of them together. Mike.