P4 3.0 800MHz vs P4 3.06 533MHz Xeon

CoLdFeAr · September 15th, 2003, 01:31 PM

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Tomteriffic · September 15th, 2003, 01:37 PM

Man, that looks like a toss-up to me. The Xeon has the lower FSB, so it won't quite have the memory bandwidth, but, on the other hand, it has more cache, which should reduce the memory bandwidth needs.

I'd look at price differences and then determine of you see a multiprocessor setup in your future, and whether the price differential would be justified (to you). It's a close call either way.

CoLdFeAr · September 15th, 2003, 01:56 PM

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Tomteriffic · September 15th, 2003, 04:34 PM

I'm not much of a gamer, so I couldn't say, but with the FSB/cache tradeoff, I'd say that any differences would be pretty minimal. So, yeah, the Xeon is like the equivalent p4 with the cache bonus.

Darthgary · September 15th, 2003, 05:20 PM

I would think the P4 3.2 with 800 FSB would be better for gaming.

CoLdFeAr · September 16th, 2003, 09:22 AM

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