Beast System - block diagram (found it!!)

[GREGORY]

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Apologies for so many posts.. must stop drinking coffee, turn off the
computer, and do some other work before going crazy and flooding
the use-group. Here's the `Beast' diagram.. it was based on an Intel
white paper `dual-Xeon SMP architecture with 440GX Host Bridge'
or something.. which is realized as Dell Precision 610 Workstation.
Big $tuff in it's day.. and highly modified even!!

http://home.comcast.net/~flightsim/SMP_diagram.gif (33k)


Now who would be nuts enough to run Sim on that!!

You see all the SCSI channels and piped busses? Viper is 32MB nVidia
TNT2 chip (44.03 driver). Sometime I find photo of CPUs which are the
size of small paperback books (with equally huge heat sink). She's
still going strong after 7 years!! Best to buy NEW, inexpensive, and
FAST machines however.


-Gregory

 

[Guest]

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a standard A64 X2 would have more power.........

see the problem with Xeons and almost all Intel CPU's is they SHARE the FSB
bus, and they SHARE the memory bus. This means the CPU waits for ages for
instructions. Basicaly core1 has to wait for core0 to release the bus and
vice versa....Even there Dual cores suffer from this. CPU to CPU talking is
done over the FSB, which is slow @ only 533/800mhz

AMD's have there dedicated HT (the new FSB) and there dedicated memory bus!
Dual cores are connected DIRECTLY to each other, and "speak" to each other
at there working freq....IE a 2200mhz x2 talk to each other at 2200mhz, not
800.....

And SMP isnt work anything for games really.... Well yet anyway.

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From Overlag - Adam Webb