[geeks] squeaking away....

[Eric Dittman]

> What really sucks is comparing a P-III with a P-II.  Until you fork out
> the bucks for the Xenon (and the new motherboard), you're screwed for
> server applications that are of any size, as in everything these days.
> 
> Even the P-III's L1 cache:
> 
> cpu0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) (686-class), 733.22 MHz
> cpu0: I-cache 16 KB 32b/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32b/line 2-way
> cpu0: L2 cache 256 KB 32b/line 8-way
> 
> is really not a whole lot better than the P-II, given twice the size on
> the latter:
> 
> cpu0: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) (686-class), 299.22 MHz
> cpu0: I-cache 16 KB 32b/line 4-way, D-cache 16 KB 32b/line 2-way
> cpu0: L2 cache 512 KB 32b/line 4-way

A couple of things to consider:

1)  The P-III L2 cache runs full-speed, while the P-II L2 cache
    runs at half-speed.
2)  The Tulatin P-III has 512KB L2 cache.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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