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To: Charles R who wrote (102711)	4/6/2000 9:46:00 PM
From: crazyoldman	Read Replies (1) of 1575535

Hello Charles and thread, Charles, good to see you back from vacation, was about to ask where you were when I saw your post last night. re: As more people realize this the consumer and business product mix will increasingly shift to the low-end. Today I accomplished part of a project I've been trying to finish since I built those 3 Athlon machines back in February. That project was to get NT server 4.0 SP3 installed on one of those 700 MHz Athlons. After installing my SQL database server (software) on the NT machine and getting the database files moved to that machine, I was ready for my test. The client machine (a second 700 MHz Athlon) ran a 4.3MB SQL application I had written a couple of years ago. The existing hardware at our site is a 200MHz pentium classic in our server, and 400MHz pII as client. One process in my application was requiring 13 min. 4 sec. to complete. The same process using the Athlon 700's required 3 min. 29 sec. The Athlons completed the task in nearly 1/4 the time required for our pentium based equipment. All parts of my application are blindingly fast as witnessed by my personal familiarity with the program. I'm not sure I can agree with your conclusion that the business product mix will or even can shift to the low end. I suppose the real test of my statement would have to be run on two 500MHz Athlons. Still, my feeling is when performance counts, go for the power. There are many places in great need for the kind of power AMD is offering on the market. I might also add there were no adverse incidents with NT or the application concerning the Athlons. The application is optimized for the pentium by the C++ compiler. Kindest regards, CrazyMan

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