I am new to suns architecture and i am currently looking at a ultra 5
360 Mhz. From an intel world I see the 360 Mhz and laugh.

Does anyone know of an easy way to see what the equivalent of utrasparc is
to a pentium?

On Thu, 20 May 2004 03:26:22 -0400, dan wrote:

> I am new to suns architecture and i am currently looking at a ultra 5
> 360 Mhz. From an intel world I see the 360 Mhz and laugh.
>
> Does anyone know of an easy way to see what the equivalent of utrasparc is
> to a pentium?


oops, sorry about the duplicate post

dan wrote:
> I am new to suns architecture and i am currently looking at a ultra 5
> 360 Mhz. From an intel world I see the 360 Mhz and laugh.
>
> Does anyone know of an easy way to see what the equivalent of utrasparc is
> to a pentium?
Hi

It's like compairing apples to peas (If You kno what I mean. :-) )

A Sun Ultra 5 has a 64 bit UltraSPARC IIi CPU, and the Intel PC's only
have a 32 bit CPU, but it dosn't mean that You will notice the difference.

I don't think You should buy the 360 MHz Ultra 5, because it only have
256 KB L2 cache.
I think You should look at a 333 MHz or a 400 MHz Ultra 5 because they
have 2 MB L2 cache.

I have a Sun Blade 100 with a 500 MHz UltraSPARC IIe with 256 KB L2
cache, and I think it's even a little slower than a Ultra 5 with the 400
MHz CPU.

The disk in a Ultra 5 is standard IDE, but I think You should buy a new
disk because the original disk is to slow. (The first ones were only
5400 RPM.)
The disk controller can only use up to a 128 GB disk, so it's no use to
buy a 160 GB.

The Keyboard and mouse use a "special" Sun connector, so get them at
once, but You can use a normal VGA display (minimum 1152x900)
I use a 18.1" TFT on my Blade 100. :-)

Greetings from a former Technical presale from Denmark.

Kent Wormsdorf
--
PS. (Sorry, only in danish.)

Er der nogen der mangler en mand med lidt viden om Sun HW og SW,
så må I gerne sende mig en E-mail.
Jeg er uddannet datamatiker og har senest arbejdet som teknisk presale
konsulent.

On Thu, 20 May 2004 10:57:44 +0100, Kent Wormsdorf wrote:

>
>
> dan wrote:
>> I am new to suns architecture and i am currently looking at a ultra 5
>> 360 Mhz. From an intel world I see the 360 Mhz and laugh.
>>
>> Does anyone know of an easy way to see what the equivalent of utrasparc is
>> to a pentium?
> Hi
>
> It's like compairing apples to peas (If You kno what I mean. :-) )
>
> A Sun Ultra 5 has a 64 bit UltraSPARC IIi CPU, and the Intel PC's only
> have a 32 bit CPU, but it dosn't mean that You will notice the difference.
>
> I don't think You should buy the 360 MHz Ultra 5, because it only have
> 256 KB L2 cache.
> I think You should look at a 333 MHz or a 400 MHz Ultra 5 because they
> have 2 MB L2 cache.
>
> I have a Sun Blade 100 with a 500 MHz UltraSPARC IIe with 256 KB L2
> cache, and I think it's even a little slower than a Ultra 5 with the 400
> MHz CPU.
>
> The disk in a Ultra 5 is standard IDE, but I think You should buy a new
> disk because the original disk is to slow. (The first ones were only
> 5400 RPM.)
> The disk controller can only use up to a 128 GB disk, so it's no use to
> buy a 160 GB.
>
> The Keyboard and mouse use a "special" Sun connector, so get them at
> once, but You can use a normal VGA display (minimum 1152x900)
> I use a 18.1" TFT on my Blade 100. :-)
>
> Greetings from a former Technical presale from Denmark.
>
> Kent Wormsdorf


Thank you, very nice feed back. I will take all that into consideration.

dan wrote:

> I am new to suns architecture and i am currently looking at a ultra 5
> 360 Mhz. From an intel world I see the 360 Mhz and laugh.
>
> Does anyone know of an easy way to see what the equivalent of utrasparc is
> to a pentium?

As others have pointed out, those are not current production.

You might see performance similar to an X86 of about twice that
clock speed -- but of course it depends very much on what you
are doing.

How much X86 can you buy for a hundred bucks (which is about
what I assume you're looking at spending)?

I use an Ultra 5 as a file server, and I find myself rebooting it
every couple of months to apply security patches. Otherwise it
just sits there doing its job.

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