On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote:
> My only two criticisms of your configuration would be: why EDO instead
> of SDRAM and why Xeons? Xeons are still pretty pricey, run no faster
> than 400 MHz,
>
> Actually, you can get 450MHz Xeons. And the NX chipset which supports Quad
> Xeons only takes EDO, not SDRAM. But it does interleaving.
>
> One motivation behind Xeons is that the GX Xeon motherboards take up to 2G
> memory and the NX Xeon motherboards take up to 4G (or more). Current BX
> motherboards max out at 1G. And to put 1G on a BX motherboard requires 256M
> pricey DIMMS because current commodity motherboards only have 4 DIMM slots.
> Even the GX dual Xeons which can take 2G only have 4 DIMM slots so it
> extremely pricey to put 2G on such a board because you need 512M DIMMs. OTOH,
> the Dell PowerEdge 6300, like most NX motherboards, has 16 DIMM slots. So you
> can use relatively inexpensive 128M DIMMS.
>
> Jeff (http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/qobi)
>
Live and learn. Thanks, that was very informative. I swear, though,
you blink in this business and the world passes you by...
rgb
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