2 Nov
2004
2 Nov
'04
7:33 p.m.
What was the fastest Pentium Pro CPU produced? On one site that a
Jeeves search turned up, there was mention of the Pro getting up to
300MHz, yet another search result says that the fastest is 200MHz.
Plus, the HP Vectra XA that I am tinkering with uses a Pentium Pro CPU
(she currently has a 200), and according to the geeksheet for this
motherboard (http://www.embeddedlogic.com/TH99/m/E-H/35391.htm) this
board can take up to a 266.
So, which is it?
2 Nov
2 Nov
9:47 p.m.
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 02:33 -0700, Scarletdown wrote:
What was the fastest Pentium Pro CPU produced? On one
site that a
Jeeves search turned up, there was mention of the Pro getting up to
300MHz, yet another search result says that the fastest is 200MHz.
This suggests that 200 was the norm:
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/19971205/
10:04 p.m.
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Scarletdown wrote:
What was the fastest Pentium Pro CPU produced? On one
site that a
Jeeves search turned up, there was mention of the Pro getting up to
300MHz, yet another search result says that the fastest is 200MHz.
Plus, the HP Vectra XA that I am tinkering with uses a Pentium Pro CPU
(she currently has a 200), and according to the geeksheet for this
motherboard (http://www.embeddedlogic.com/TH99/m/E-H/35391.htm) this
board can take up to a 266.
So, which is it?
The fastest one produced was 200MHz. They had 150, 180 and
200MHz
versions, with cache sizes ranging from 256KB to 2MB. My primary
file server at the office is a Compaq Proliant 6000 with four of
the PPro/200 CPU's with 2MB cache each, and that thing just does
not give up. Although all my other servers are MUCH faster CPU-
wise, this box handles the Win2000 Advanced Server plus SFU plus
BackupExec very well.
Anyway, the answer would be '200'. They did project releases of
266 and 300MHz, but there ended up being early Pentium II's.
--f
3 Nov
3 Nov
2:20 a.m.
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From: "Fred N. van Kempen" <waltje(a)pdp11.nl>
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Subject: Re: OT: Fastest Pentium Pro?
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Scarletdown wrote:
PPro overdrives hit 333Mhz (I have 2 on a Intel PPro motherboard PR440FX).
The overdrive is a P2 chip with 512KB cache w/ECC running at the processor
speed, unlike a normal P2 with cache that runs at 1/2 CPU speed.
They are fairly inexpensive and can found here:
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PODP66X333&cat=CPU
What was the fastest Pentium Pro CPU produced?
On one site that a
Jeeves search turned up, there was mention of the Pro getting up to
300MHz, yet another search result says that the fastest is 200MHz.
Plus, the HP Vectra XA that I am tinkering with uses a Pentium Pro CPU
(she currently has a 200), and according to the geeksheet for this
motherboard (http://www.embeddedlogic.com/TH99/m/E-H/35391.htm) this
board can take up to a 266.
So, which is it?
The fastest one produced was 200MHz. They had 150, 180 and
200MHz
versions, with cache sizes ranging from 256KB to 2MB. My primary
file server at the office is a Compaq Proliant 6000 with four of
the PPro/200 CPU's with 2MB cache each, and that thing just does
not give up. Although all my other servers are MUCH faster CPU-
wise, this box handles the Win2000 Advanced Server plus SFU plus
BackupExec very well.
Anyway, the answer would be '200'. They did project releases of
266 and 300MHz, but there ended up being early Pentium II's.
--f
2:59 a.m.
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
The fastest one produced was 200MHz. They had 150,
180 and 200MHz
versions, with cache sizes ranging from 256KB to 2MB. My primary
file server at the office is a Compaq Proliant 6000 with four of
the PPro/200 CPU's with 2MB cache each, and that thing just does
not give up. Although all my other servers are MUCH faster CPU-
wise, this box handles the Win2000 Advanced Server plus SFU plus
BackupExec very well.
My lowly single PPro 200Mhz server has been faithfully and dutifully
handling my email and dishing out web pages for at least 5 years now.
It's survived several slashdottings and has been one of the more reliable
systems I've ever owned. I'm getting ready to switch over to a new server
(dual PII Xeon 450) which should make things run a lot faster but I'm
planning to keep this one around in some role.
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3:20 a.m.
At 10:59 AM 11/3/2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
My two servers for my mini-ISP business are similar quad PPro
Proliant 7000 systems that have run without a hitch for years,
and for years I ran dual PPro 200 P6DNF towers and loved them.
There was something about those PPros that really honked.
I have been tempted to replace the Proliants with something
small and blade-ish that didn't suck so much electricity
and space, though. I've paid far more for juice than I
did for the systems.
- John
My primary file server at the office is a Compaq
Proliant 6000 with four of
the PPro/200 CPU's with 2MB cache each, and that thing just does
not give up.
My lowly single PPro 200Mhz server has been faithfully and dutifully
handling my email and dishing out web pages for at least 5 years now.
It's survived several slashdottings and has been one of the more reliable
systems I've ever owned.
5:50 a.m.
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, John Foust wrote:
I have been tempted to replace the Proliants with
something
small and blade-ish that didn't suck so much electricity
and space, though. I've paid far more for juice than I
did for the systems.
Yes, suck power, they do. Very true. Generate heat, too..
the PL.6000 and the five PL.1600's are the reason why that
machine room upstairs has a *hefty* airco installed.. which,
for The Netherlands, is quite unusual to have :)
--f
10:47 a.m.
I have seen pictures of the giant rack proliant!~ We want one of those but
have one of the towers with 2 processors in it... also have the 11x17
dulpexing monster laser printer to display next to it..... looks
impressive.... but... want a rack unit too with the rack fully stuffed like
in the picture I saw!
Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf(a)siconic.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Fastest Pentium Pro?
On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
The fastest one produced was 200MHz. They had
150, 180 and 200MHz
versions, with cache sizes ranging from 256KB to 2MB. My primary
file server at the office is a Compaq Proliant 6000 with four of
the PPro/200 CPU's with 2MB cache each, and that thing just does
not give up. Although all my other servers are MUCH faster CPU-
wise, this box handles the Win2000 Advanced Server plus SFU plus
BackupExec very well.
My lowly single PPro 200Mhz server has been faithfully and dutifully
handling my email and dishing out web pages for at least 5 years now.
It's survived several slashdottings and has been one of the more reliable
systems I've ever owned. I'm getting ready to switch over to a new server
(dual PII Xeon 450) which should make things run a lot faster but I'm
planning to keep this one around in some role.
--
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Festival
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2:01 a.m.
What was the fastest Pentium Pro CPU produced? On one
site that a
Jeeves search turned up, there was mention of the Pro getting up to
300MHz, yet another search result says that the fastest is 200MHz.
Plus, the HP Vectra XA that I am tinkering with uses a Pentium Pro CPU
(she currently has a 200), and according to the geeksheet for this
motherboard (http://www.embeddedlogic.com/TH99/m/E-H/35391.htm) this
board can take up to a 266.
So, which is it?
Good luck finding anything higher than 200Mhz, there are supposed to
be 233Mhz and 266Mhz CPU's but I've been unable to find any, and they
saw very limited release. I'm not sure but I think the Vectra XA
might be the box that I have (nice system if it is), I bumped mine up
from 150Mhz to 200Mhz, and would really like to find a
266Mhz for it.
The only real chance for an upgrade is to get a PPro overdrive
(Pentium II), though I think I'd rather find a PPro 200 with 2MB
cache (this is the first I've heard of such a beast, or a 300Mhz
PPro).
Zane
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16 Nov
16 Nov
3:15 a.m.
Am 3 Nov 2004 2:33 meinte Scarletdown:
What was the fastest Pentium Pro CPU produced? On one
site that a
Jeeves search turned up, there was mention of the Pro getting up to
300MHz, yet another search result says that the fastest is 200MHz.
Plus, the HP Vectra XA that I am tinkering with uses a
Pentium Pro CPU
(she currently has a 200), and according to the geeksheet for this
motherboard (http://www.embeddedlogic.com/TH99/m/E-H/35391.htm) this
board can take up to a 266.
Well, the fastest I have is a PPro 200. AFAIR the PPro was
available as 120, 133, 180 and 200 with a cache size of
256,512,1024 and 2048K. Planned Versions I know of where
240 and 266. I never heared of a 300. Fact is, that, to
counter AMD, who was just out running their Pentiums, Intel
did take the PPro design, added MMX, and formed the PII
series to replace the desktop (Pentium) and server (PPro)
CPUs. For their business users they offered PPro Overdrive
CPUs up to like 333 MHz. Basicly PIIs in PPro pinout.
It was the great time of 'overdrive' CPUs ... I very much
liked at that time the AMD 486-133 that could be used in
any ordinary 33 MHz Board and gave them another live (I
still have two machines running on them - one even at 200
MHz - 50 MHz bus spead, a _real_ 486-50 :)
Anyway, if you realy want to upgrade, finding one of the 2 MB
cache versions might be the best solutions. An overdrive CPU
may require a newer BIOS.
Gruss
H.
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