Dual P4 ?

[Vegito]

I dont ever recalling seeing any type of dual p4 after the p3.. except for those xeon..

would intel ever make the dual market for affordable for desktop users ?

this is for crap loads of excel calculation not for games

 

[Adul]

not anytime in the near future if you want dual p4 go with a Xeon setup.

 

[Pariah]

I don't believe the P4 even supports SMP. Unlike the Athlon XP-MP, the P4 and P4 Xeon have actual architectural differences. The 2 CPU's also have differnt pin counts, so there is no option to plop 2 P4's into a SMP Xeon system.

 

[EXman]

boy that would be fast

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

With the eventual implementation of SMT, dual CPU's may not be as critical as they were in the past. We'll have to wait and see how effective SMT is when compaired to SMP. From what I've read, Intel and Microsoft are still hammering away at the details.

 

[Vegito]

i was hoping those new one with the .13 micron and starts at 2.2 ghz might have some revisions... damn

dual p3 is too slow to do excel calculations...

 

[SexyK]

There are dual P4 setups, the Xenon is just a P4 with a couple administrative features built in. I believe otherwise they are exactly the same chip as the regualr P4. The extra pins are to ensure proper signaling and power/grounding, which is exceedingly important in the SMP enviroment. It's more expencive, but you can have dual P4's if you want them.

Kramer

 

[Noriaki]

The Xean is a P4...there is very negligiable differences, the only important one is that the Xeon is SMP capable, the P4 is not.

Other than that you can pretty well consider them the same chip, they just dropped the P4 part from the Xeon name, instead of P3 and P3 Xeon, it's P4 and just plain Xeon.

 

[Pariah]

"There are dual P4 setups,"

Really? where?

"The extra pins are to ensure proper signaling and power/grounding, which is exceedingly important in the SMP enviroment."

Which the P4 doesn't have, which is why there is no SMP platform for it.

"It's more expencive, but you can have dual P4's if you want them."

Sure will be expensive when you factor in the cost to design and build the motherboard.

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

Yeah, according to this spec sheet, the P4 Xeon will set you back $54 more than the standard P4. It's worth it in my book...the mobo is gonna cost you though.

 

[BigToque]

What is SMT?

Is that having more then 1 core on a single package?

 

[rip22]

Symmetric Multiprocessing Frequently Asked Questions

 

[Viper GTS]

<< Symmetric Multiprocessing Frequently Asked Questions >>



That's SMP, THIS is SMT.

Viper GTS

 

[rip22]

Just checking that you are with me, hehe..

I had your link up also but i posted the wrong one.

Edit: added another good link about SMT.Simultaneous Multithreading

 

[sitka]

<< That's SMP, THIS is SMT. >>




wow, nerd alert.

 

[Pariah]

rip's link is further confirmation that there is no nonXeon SMP P4.

 

[dullard]

<< Xeon is just a P4 with a couple administrative features built in >>

- SexyK


<< Really? where? rip's link is further confirmation that there is no nonXeon SMP P4. >>

- Pariah
Pariah, why are you being so hard on SexyK? It said right in his post that the Xeons are nearly identical to the P4 but slightly different. Thus there are slightly altered dual P4s - named the Xeon. Why be anal and point out that the Xeon is different than the P4 (even though SexyK stated that himself)? What do you gain from harassing him? I have a dual 1.7 GHz Xeon machine. Everytime I mention that to someone, they have no clue what I'm talking about. I then rephrase it and say I have a dual P4. A lightbulb in their head turns on and they understand me. Why be anal and complain when someone calls a Xeon an altered P4?