Greetings fellow listmembers:

I intend to build a dual-processor workstation. It will be a dual OS machine running Both Linux and NT or Linux and BE as well as Adobe Photoshop and other more esoteric graphics programs that will effectively utilize the dual-processor architecture. I notice that the new Xeons are manufactured with a 256K L2 cache instead of the 512k cache that was standard on the older Xeons. This, of course, has cut their price in half. Bearing this in mind, is there still a significant performance advantage in purchasing a pair of Xeons instead of comparably paced Coppermines? In other words, are their other features of the GX chipset which engender greater speed and "load-bearing" qualities now that the L2 cache part of the equation is equal? Further, have any list members had direct experience comparing these two architectures?

TIA for all responses,

G. P. Miller

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