Intel Xeon 1.7GHz: King of the High End?
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 21, 2001 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
The Test
We compared performance using four setups:
AMD Athlon-C 1.2GHz on an AMD 760 motherboard (we chose the 1.2GHz Thunderbird for future comparison)
Dual Intel Pentium III 933 on a VIA Apollo Pro266 motherboard. As we've already discovered, the Pro266 offers similar performance to the i840 at a much lower cost. And the Pentium III performs identically to the entry level Pentium III Xeons with 256KB L2 cache.
Dual Intel Xeon 1.7GHz on an Iwill 860 motherboard.
Single Intel Xeon 1.7GHz on an Iwill 860 motherboard. This configuration performs identically to a single processor Pentium 4 running at 1.7GHz.
We used 512MB of memory for all of the desktop/workstation tests and 1GB of memory for all of the server tests.
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Windows 98SE / 2000 Test System |
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Hardware |
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CPU(s) |
Intel Pentium III 933MHz x 2 | Intel Xeon 1.7GHz x 2 | AMD Athlon-C "Thunderbird" 1.2GHz | |||
| Motherboard(s) | Iwill DVD266-R | Iwill DX400-SN | ASUS A7M266 | |||
| Memory |
1GB
PC2100 Corsair DDR SDRAM |
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| Hard Drive |
IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GXP 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100 |
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| CDROM |
Phillips 48X |
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| Video Card(s) |
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra 64MB DDR (default clock - 250/230 DDR) |
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| Ethernet |
Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter |
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Software |
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Operating System |
Windows
2000 Professional SP2 |
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