Pentium4 vs Xeon

[Eric Kuhnke]

There are single-Xeon boards using the Serverworks GC series of chipsets with 64-bit PCI, but they're just as expensive as a budget dual Xeon board (Tyan S2723 or Supermicro X5DPA-GG)...  In the $280 to $310 per board price range.  Seems rather silly, as the "Prestonia" Socket-604 Xeon CPUs are nothing but a P4 repackaged.  

There's also this board:
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/trinitygcsl.html
Which uses a single P4 @ 533MHz FSB, with the same Serverworks chipset.  

Supermicro X5-SS* series (scroll down):
http://www.supermicro.com/Product_page/product-mS.htm


>Currently P4 motherboards are only available (AFAIK) with 33MHz/32bit
>PCI.  That can be a big bottleneck if your cluster application is
>sensitive to I/O bandwidth.  Early in 2004, if the rumours are true,
>there will be a P4 chipset supporting 66MHz/64bit PCI-X. 


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