Re: Dual Athlon XP 1800+ on Tyan Thunder K7 or Tiger MP anyone?

Robert Love
2001-10-09T22:42:27Z

On Tue, 2001-10-09 at 18:30, Dan Hollis wrote:
> It's palomino core. It means, new SSE instructions, bigger TLB cache,
> prefetch, and 20% power reduction. All this for maybe 5%-15% performance
> increase. And a not so nice increase in price tag :-o

Oh, you are right.

I meant MP vs XP part, sorry. From what I gather, MP is no different
from XP, although perhaps "certified for SMP" -- despite costing more
per MHz.

> Dual 1.2 non-MP is fine for me thanks... plenty fast and cheap.

Completely Agreed. I am thinking of getting a dual AMD system for doing
more kernel work (tackle AMD and SMP). My main machine is a P3 now.

Robert Love