What is special with Xeon?

Xeon is special because it starts with an X and people like words that have an X in them, so to start with an X is even more special. I mean why do you think everyone loves the Xpider case? Sure, the looks are cool, but it's the name that really hooks them in.

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But seriously, performance advantage over <i>what</i>? The L3 cache on the high-end Xeons is sometimes useful. Xeon's real claim to fame is just it's ability to be used in multiple CPU boxen.

Asking what the main performance factor in Itanium is would be only slightly less complicated than asking what Itanium itself is, which is only marginally more detailed than trying to explain EPIC. It's a whole new way of running a CPU. Unless you want to waste hours and hours on the subject you can pretty much leave it at that and just let the benchmarks speak for themselves.

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The Xeon uses the P4 core. End of story on the technology.

Intel made sure Socket 478 wouldn't support dual CPU's. Probably a signal pin they eliminated or something. Why did they do that? So they could charge more for the Xeon. Same core, different socket.

There are Xeons available with extended cache, but the vast majority are using the stock P4 cache levels.

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Yes, after all, those server guys tend to have all the money they really need... Plus, something like 70-80% of server prices is usually memory - a ton of memory.

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>What technology makes the xeon more multiprocessor friendly
>than P4?

The most efficient technology ever: marketing.

> At the first instant I guess instruction level parallelism
>is the main factor in Itanium performance.

Please do share what you think on second, third, fourth and fifth instance

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ROFLMBO That must be the reason I bought HyperX

And the features of itanium are explained in the Intel site (PDF document).

this question is actually not that good... Itanium is very good at floating point, but would make one lousy laptop CPU... Centrino is excellent, from a laptop point of view. Celeron is not that good, but it's for low-cost niches... Pentiums are desktop processors, and relatively good ones at that... they occupy different niches... it's not good to compare them. It would be like comparing a bike to a ferrari - they're both transportation, yet they have an entirely different scope.

<font color=red><b>M</b></font color=red>ephistopheles

your reasoning is justifyable.But if you are thinking about technology Itanium is the best.So it is the best technology processor.And as Servers are the most demanding computers and Itanium is the best server processor,you can think it as the most powerful computer you can buy(Discard super computers).

ROFLMAO!

This whole thing is just...

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