The SUN

[clone]

Hi

Have anyone a Sun processor? If you do please tell me if you are satisfied with it.

Thanks!
christianSpears

 

[shathal]

Why? What - if anything - are you after?

Sun Server processors? Or their Ultra-SPARC stations or ...?

Be a little bit more clear & explain to us what/why you want? .

That way, things will make a bit more sense.

As your comment stands, it may sound (to the wrong people) as a flame waiting to happen...

 

[clone]

Yes the sparc IIie processor, is it faster then the P4?

 

[AndyHui]

It really depends what you want to use it for. It's not an x86 processor, so it's really difficult to compare.

 

[BurntKooshie]

The US chips, the USII and below in particular, are generally a lot slower than even the high end Pentium III chips. Of course, P4's only go in uniprocessor systems, and dual configs for their Xeon line. Sun chips on the other hand, can go into boxes with many, many CPUs, and easily clustered to over 1,000 CPUs.

But, for uniprocessor performance, An Athlon or Pentium 4 will beat out that chip (not the US III, but the US IIe for sure). Of course, the software you run might have a really bad port to x86, if at all. In that case, the US should be faster. Like andy said, it depends on what you run.