Pentium II XEON

[WhoCarez]

Guys,

Can someone tell me which one of them is better CPU, PII XEON 400/1MB or 450/512K or PIII 450/512K.


thanks


Marcus

 

[SaturnX]

What are you going to use it for?

 

[Rifter]

Xeon PII 400 in most cases, 2 times as much cache and full speed at that! what more could you want?

 

[RoadRuner]

xeon's are crazy fast in the memory io with huge caches. I have a quad xeon 550 2mb l2 on each, and it can move a ton of data around.

They are many apps which benefit from this, most definitely in heavy loaded multithreaded os's (unix/NT) where you got a ton of processes running, the larger the cache the better.

 

[sojin]

It really depends, on what applications you gonna be running.
I don't think there is a definite answer, not like good or bad that simple...
Typically, the business type applications with high reuse patterns that fall much into the principle of locality, would favor the large, high speed L2 on-die cache Xeon has.
while games or graphic-intensive application that chews immense amount of data and floating computation will use the advantage of every extra Mhz the chip has.
For web surfing, just go for the least priced stuff...

 

[WhoCarez]

At the moment it will be used for Photoshop and probably Web server later. The thing is I can get really cheap for those CPUs.


thank you guys

Marcus

 

[xtreme2k]

i would pick the Xeon400/1Mb anyday

 

[Kwad Guy]

Be sure you can use the Xeon. Most motehrboards will use either
Xeons *OR* standard slot 1 chips. These are not interchangable.

Note that even though you can get PII series Xeons cheap, Xeon
motherboards are generally expensive. If you're thinking you're
gonna build a cheap Xeon-based system, you'd better price out
the Xeon boards first.

Oh, and most Xeon motherboards are fairly large, and won't fit
in many ATX cases.

Kwad