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Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/09/02/four_way_merced_the_pix/

Four way Merced: the pix

It's a great big lumbering beast

By Mike Magee in Palm Springs

Posted in Business, 2nd September 1999 16:36 GMT

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Intel Developer Forum Intel was exhibiting a two way and a four way system in its Showspace area. The four-way box is upgradeable to eight ways, and uses the AL460GX chipset, and supports up to 64Gb of memory. It also includes hotswap fans and HotPCI drives. (Memory type corrected -- we didn't mean 64GHz :|) We had exclusive pictures of the Merced cartridges in March. Go here (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/3204.html") to view them. Here are some pictures of this beastie. This shows the front of the four-way with the case removed, and the hot swap fans... This shot shows the 64-bit PCI slots in the machine. This last picture shows the outside of the four way case plus a bit of the workstation two way machine, which uses the BS460GX chipset... Would you run games on these monsters? ®