Re: MP on P5 vs P6

On Sep 10, 10:44am, Toshi Morita wrote:
> Subject: Re: MP on P5 vs P6

> > I've found some vendors who didn't know how to tell externally
> > between a PPRO200-256k and PPRO200-512k. Needless to say they'll never
> > be seeing my business again... one has to be careful about these guys.
> > I'm sure there are numbers on the chip somewhere, but I'm still not
> > absolutely sure. AFAIK the 150s were only built with -256k L1s.
>
> Nope, there were some buit with 512k cache. Intel was offering a choice of
> 512k L2 cache only on PP150s initially, then some mags benched all the
> PPros and found that the PP150-512k was as fast as the PP180 in most
> applications, which was a bit embarassing, so Intel started offering 512k
> cache on the PP200 as well (if I remember correctly).

Cool! It'd be interesting to find some of those :) All I've
been able to find anywhere has been the -256k's; must've made a lot
more of them than the -512ks.

> Toshi

Sincerely,

Eric Dorman
edorman@tanya.ucsd.edu
Received on Wed Sep 10 09:20:34 1997