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To: dougSF30 who wrote (42545)	6/4/2001 7:55:56 PM
From: stribe30	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Doug: a well placed hardware guy guesses in 4 hours and 12 mins or so.. so I presume that to be midnight EDT... though dont take that as gospel. I'm actually reading the entire story again right now (but I have been asked not to reveal or link to the uRL). Some snippets for you that I've already posted but are well worth repeating: --AMD's first try at the server market is without a doubt an incredible success............ --If AMD can ramp up the speed of the Duron, it would make for a great low-cost DB server platform; especially if 760MPX motherboards eventually hit the $200 price point --As if the platform and performance alone weren't impressive enough, another major selling point here is the extremely low cost of Registered DDR SDRAM vs. the RDRAM that the Dual Xeon platform requires. You can purchase 1GB of Registered DDR SDRAM for less than $350 while an equivalent amount of RDRAM can be found for more than twice that at around $740. With most of these servers running 2 - 4GB of memory, the savings can add up. --AMD has indeed come a long way in the past two years; they have gone from the unreliable low-cost manufacturer to the company that offers the highest performing DP x86 platform on the market - and that is exactly what the 760MP is. Less than a month ago Intel announced their new Xeon processor and today AMD takes away any reason to purchase that very platform. Intel can continue this game of pretending that AMD isn't a threat, but the truth of the matter is that they are and they happen to be a very big one. --If you can't tell by now, we're very impressed with the AMD 760MP chipset. In fact, one of the reasons we spent so long on this comparison is because the outcome of our results would influence what platform we used in our next database server for the AnandTech Forums. The choice is simple; the AMD 760MP is the DP workstation and server platform to have. It's reliable, it's high performing and it's very flexible; everything you'd expect from an Intel based server solution, except that it's from AMD instead. --Three years ago we wouldn't be caught dead recommending an AMD based server solution. Today, we'd be crazy not to do so.

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