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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (69085)8/17/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (3) of 1585862
 
Anand tries an Athlon 650 in a server environment:

anandtech.com

Quoting from his blurb:

I've been playing around with the Athlon processor in server situations for well over two weeks now, and the results are quite interesting. From a performance perspective, the initial benchmarks seem to indicate that a single Athlon 650 is noticeably faster than a single Pentium III 650 running Windows NT Server. However, as the number of clients hitting the server increase and other bottlenecks (Disk I/O, and memory) begin to enter the equation, the Athlon's performance seems to fall behind that of the Pentium III running on a BX motherboard. This weekend I'll be trying to track down exactly what is causing the unusual performance anomalies as the number of connected clients increases, however my first instincts are pointing at the AMD 750 chipset. I'll be working on the server benchmarking methodology before putting together a full blown review of the Athlon vs the Pentium III in server situations as evaluating such performance does involve taking quite a few factors into account. I'll definitely keep you posted on how that goes, as the Athlon definitely seems like a viable server solution especially if dual processor Athlon chipsets do become available next year.

Seems like Athlon chipsets have a lot of room for improvement when it comes to server performance. I don't expect VIA to do any better when it comes to server chipset platforms. Maybe Hotrail, but their multi-Athlon platform won't come for a while. Does anyone know if other companies (maybe RCC?) are making server chipsets for Athlon?

Tenchusatsu
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