Hello, been a while, dual CPU mobos

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 02:38:02PM -0400, Michael Laccetti wrote:
> Well, the P4 design allowed it to scale to speeds that the Athlon
> XP/64/Opteron cannot.  It was a trade-off.  To get fast, they increased the
> pipeline, added new instructions, etc, etc.  Hence the comparison of things
> like a 2.2GHz AMD to a 3.2GHz P4.  More work per cycle vs. more cycles to
> get things done.
> 
> Now, a dual core Pentium M...  That'd be sick. 

Apparently intel is considering it if "The Register" and other rumours
can be believed.

And what about P4 dual core with hyperthreading in each core?  The poor
OS could be so confused.  Some parts share L1 cache, some share L2
cache, some share just system ram.

Lennart Sorensen
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