Originally posted by Dilenger4
I would go with an AMD over an intel unless i was able to purchase a Xeon. As far as i know Xeon were originally developed to out perform standard p3's. With up to 2Mb of l2 cache and running at processor speed you cant go wrong. My friend does CAD stuff for a machine shop and works on an SGI machine that has twin Xeon processors. The processing power is a sight to see.
The Xeons were released with the original PentiumII processors, at the same time that the Celerson was released.
It does floating-point* mathematics faster than the PentiumII and its Celeron counterpart.
It also has the option of 512k, 1024k and 2048k l2 cache.

When the PentiumIII was introduced, a P-III Xeon was released also.
Then when the PentiumIV was released, Xeon was released under its own brand name.
So now its just called Xeon.


*re the floating-point mathematics: The Xeon is designed as a server processor, to do the mathematics that servers do, better than other processors.
I suppose its prececessor was probably the PentiumPro.
Anyway, as far as I know, its floating-point math that this CPU does faster, but I may be wrong.