[SunRescue] Question about a Mbus cpu module...

[Mike Nicewonger]

You will most likely get more bang for your dollar with a pair of SM-71's
since a pair of 66 Hyper's are only about the same as a pair of SM-41's in
performance.

Mike N
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joshua Snyder" <josh at imagestream-is.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:46 AM
Subject: [SunRescue] Question about a Mbus cpu module...


> I would like to know if I should be thinking about upgrading the cpu's on
my
> sparc 10.  But I am not sure if an upgrade would do me much good.  I
> currently have a dual processor Hypersparc mbus card that runs at 66Mhz.
> When I run "module-info" I get following...
>
> Mbus  :  40 MHz
> Sbus  :  20 MHz
> CPU#0 :  66 MHz RT620 / RT625
> CPU#1 :  66 MHz RT620 / RT625
>
> I am pretty sure that each cpu also has 256K cache.  So would upgrading to
a
> pair of sm71's( or anything else ) make sense.  Or should I look for
another
> one of these Mbus card so I can make my Sparc 10 a Quad machine?
>
>
> josh
>
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