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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Stroller |
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<stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>wrote: |
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> On 27/5/2011, at 12:28am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > * Two XEON chips. I didn't know it right away but that means 4 cores. |
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> They are old Pentium IV-based 32-bit chips. I got the slowest still being |
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> made, so the clock speed is 1.6 GHz. On 4 cores, it's not bad at all. |
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> I *think* at that age those may be single-core hyperthreading chips, which |
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> would nevertheless show in (for instance) `top` as 4 cores. I won't swear to |
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> this, though. |
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> Stroller. |
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> Actually, you're right. I got two chips so I could work with "real" |
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threads and thread control. The hyperthreading was a surprise, and might |
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have done quite as well by themselves. Anyway, it still works fine and the |
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only thing likely to make me upgrade is that the card slots are all PCI-X |
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low voltage (extra cutout in the connector). As time goes on I'm going to |
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want to add things, and I may wind up with a new mobo fairly soon. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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