Boards for Fastest Intel Processors

[W Bauske]

Supermicro's P4 Xeon dual uses the Intel 860 chipset as do all dual 
P4 Xeon boards I'm aware of. Also, the current 2.2Ghz chips are not 
Xeon's from what I read anyway so only singles are available at this 
point.

Wes

Steven Timm wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have any recommendations on what type of dual Xeon
> motherboard to get to be able to run these new 2.2 GHz processors?
> I have heard a lot about the Supermicro boards but am suspect due
> to problems with several earlier versions of Supermicro PIII boards.
> 
> Is there any word on when Intel will be releasing their new
> board with the native Intel chipset instead of a Serverworks chipset?
> 
> Steve
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
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> 
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Craig Tierney wrote:
> 
> > The 2.2 Ghz cpus have just been released.  This generation
> > of cpu is built at 0.13 microns and has twice as big of a
> > L2 cache (512 KB).   These are the single processor versions.
> > The Xeon (smp) chips should follow shortly (I am guessing).
> > Go look at the roadmaps at www.theregister.co.uk.  They tend to
> > be accurate.
> >
> > I have not heard that there is a problem with the 2.0 Ghz.  Is
> > it a problem with RedHat or the Linux kernel specifically?  We
> > had no problems with the 1.7 Ghz Xeon chips, but they are not the
> > 2.0 Ghz that you are talking about.
> >
> > Craig
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 07:03:35AM -0800, Rob Simac wrote:
> > >   What is the fastest Intel processors available to the public?  Have
> > > the 2.0 Ghz been released?  I have also heard rumors that the 2.0 Ghz
> > > has problems running with Red Hat 7.1.  Has anyone else heard this?
> > >
> > >                       Ciao,
> > >                            Rob.
> > >
> > > ======================================================
> > >       Rob Simac -- Therma-Wave, Inc. -- rsimac at thermawave.com
> > > <mailto:rsimac at thermawave.com>
> > > ======================================================
> > > "Remember this, foolish mortals, when ye stare headlong into the
> > > mind-paralyzing void, the inky black nothingness of existence, the
> > > hellish yawning maw of the abyss -- it's pretty damn dark, so give it a
> > > few minutes for your eyes to adjust."
> > >                           Frank M. Carrano, Branford, Conn.
> > >                           (Bulwer-Lytton Writing Contest Runner-up)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Craig Tierney (ctierney at hpti.com)
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