Will Be run on the Xeon processor? P3 Xeon, P4 Xeon or even multiple Xeon processor systems?

Like A Wild man! I don't think that the P4 Xeon is really a Pentium P4 but I am not sure. What I understood is that it is still a P3. ??? You might have to put a patch in if it is actually one of the 1-1.4 gig. I think it is a 423 socket. They seem to have trouble. The latest 478 socket works with beos without a kernel patch.
Check with Frizbe.net for more hardware info.

I was wondering about the Xeon processors because I am just starting to build a dual P3 box (dual P3 933MHz, 1Gig RAM, 30gig 7200RPM Ultra100 IBM HD, HP 9900ci DVD/CDRW combo drive (and yes I know about the ultra100 patch)) From reading FrizBe I decided on the Asus P3C-D motherboard. While researching dual processor boards, I ran across Xeon processors for servers and workstations, saw just how much more they could do than a standard P3 processor and was interested if anyone has tried/used them with Be. I like the old BeBox case, but don't know of anywhere to get anything even close to it, so I am going to go with this one: http://www.amamax.com/submarine.html - it's translucent, opens like a Mac case for easy hardware access, it's light weight compared to an all metal case and just looks cool. :)

Just FYI:

I ran BeOS on a 550MHz Pentium III Xeon system at work and it ran quite well. On its
own, that shouldn't be surprising. Here's the amazing bit: It was handling the video in
software because the display adapter was not supported! Even with video EMULATION
it ran! No color, but I was amazed that it worked as well as it did.

I don't know if it is really worth the money but I say why not? We may all be able to afford a good machine like that if the prices keep going down. I saw big name brand server dual xeon 2 gig for a most reasonable price. Under $3000US plus tax and shipping. I think it had a 18gig scsi harddrive too. We bought some at work for $23K not too long ago so even high end is getting cheaper.
The standard P3 is great and there are only a few programs that can take advantage of the P4's new instructions. A 1.3 gig P3 is about the same as a 2 gig P4 for almost all programs. The xeon is better cache and better internals. The processor isn't the bottleneck much any more so companies are selling throughput. With the pervasive multithreading of BeOS your two processors will ROCK. It is hard to write a program that is single threaded. Anyway, I wish you well and hope it works well. If so give a writeup at frizbe for others to try or not.

Before you spent a bunch of money on a 2 gig Dual Xeon let me rephrase my opinion. I know that the P3 Xeon's work but I only suspect that the P4 Xeon's above 1.6 gig will work. The problem might be that goofy rambus memory on most of the dual xeon servers I think. I have not read of anyone getting rambus rdram to work and have not heard that it won't either though. I saw another ad for $1990 for a dual xeon2gig18gigscsi. How can I talk my wife into buying it for me?

Hi again :)
Because of the high prices of Xeon hardware, I decided to stick with standard dual P3 933MHz processors. I have allready received my Asus P3C-D motherboard to start the project. Thanks for everyone's input.