[geeks] Ran the numbers - V240

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> Actually, what I thought was a quad-core Xeon system with HT turned on
> is actually a dual quad-core Xeon system that  can take up to 24 Gig
> RAM. All at about 175 Watts/hr.

The Tyan version of that board is what I collapsed all my RISC systems
into.  Clovertown / Blackford was the first Intel platform that could
compete with RISC in MIPS/watt as well as it could in MIPS/dollar.

Shame about the FB-DIMMs, though.  That was nearly as fun as the RDRAM
debacle of the Pentium 4 era.  And shame about BIOS and all the legacy
PC/AT crap that hadn't been flushed out of the mainstream by then, too.

But that platform in particular is where I noticed the PC finally growing
up to become a real computer.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke
Austin, TX
USA