[geeks] Ran the numbers - V240

[Lionel Peterson]

I *think* the RAM is the same as the T5220 and the PE1950 systems take (there
are two common, yet incompatible, types of FBDIMMs). If that is the case,
expanding RAM to full 24 Gig is trivial, RAM DIMMs are plentiful on eBay - but
still, it has 16 Gig now, that's not bad.

The quad-core CPU, X5270 (I think) is rated at 50 Watts each, so that is a
pretty efficient quad-core CPU.

Also, I picked up, but have not started reading, a copy of "The Pentium
Chronicles", by Robert Colwell, and "Unix Life" at a used book store, so I
look forward to learning more about the families of Pentiums...

Lionel

> On Nov 10, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Jonathan Patschke <jp at celestrion.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
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