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Follow up on my question about Xeon's

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Desslok

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Hey guys awhile back I asked which would be faster a Xeon with a 2 meg cache or a Xeon with a smaller cache but a fast clock speed. Well I haven't been able to do any hardcore testing, but my "seat of the pants" feeling is that it is a tie.

Here is what I was running.

2x Xeon 550 with 2 megs cache vs

2x Xeon 667 with 265k of cache

The board is a Marlin Spike workstation board with 256megs of ECC ram.

Thanks for your guy's input.
 
I feel too that it could be very close, especially with the much higher cache on the older chips 🙂

I'd like to know the outcome, which is in fact quicker 😉


Confused
 
I think that for Common tasks, the 667 will be faster, but when you get into the server domain, with LOTS of work to be done
at the same time, the 2MB cache will came ahead and maintain a level of output that the 667 will short after it gets to some point of calls...

IT depends exclusively of what you do with it... I myself, would go with the 550 and do a litlle overclock 😉 ( my old 550 did 733 without a sweat )


 
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