Michael J McCafferty wrote: > Motherbaords for dual socket is going to be much more $ than a single > socket board that supportsd quad core. > > Often, all that I know of in the Intel line, motherboards that are dual > socket are going to use "server" RAM (FBDIMMs). This is much more $ and > *slower* than the non-buffered regular DDR you can use for a single quad > core system. > > For several months you were able to get dual cores with 1333MHz FSB, but > quad cores were 1066MHz FSB. You can now get quad cores with 1333MHz FSB > that do not use the server RAM. There are also some with TWELVE megs of > cache that are starting to get out of the stratosphere (see: Q9450)
I wonder if "more cache is better" has a limit (or perhaps just diminishing returns)? And is n MB of cache in one cpu better than n/2 in each of 2 cpus? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
