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xeon vs pentium

post #1 of 6
6/23/03 at 1:50am
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i was wondering if neone could explain to me what the differences are between xeon and pentium processors... what are the pros and cons both each of them??
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post #2 of 6
6/24/03 at 1:53am
Hi,

The biggest difference that I am aware of is the Xeon has built in support for two processors and the Xeon-MP for four processors. From my breif visit to the Intel web site this morning, using the standard Intel chipsets it looks like the P4 is limited to 4GB of RAM and the Xeon is limited to 16GB of RAM. Via other magic, both can use up to 64GB of RAM. The Xeon chipsets also support multiple PCI busses (32 and 64 bit). There are other differences. The Xeon is not something you are going to see in a laptop.

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post #3 of 6
6/24/03 at 3:41am
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thanx for the reply...
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post #4 of 6
6/24/03 at 3:56am
Also dont they have huge caches? ITs been a while but i remember them being massive at the time
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post #5 of 6
6/24/03 at 6:03am
why not Xeon on notebooks?
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post #6 of 6
6/24/03 at 7:26am
probably cooling issues, xeon is meant for servers, but you never know, anything is possible...
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