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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 217.53+1.5%Nov 28 9:30 AM EST
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To: pgerassi who wrote (74186)3/11/2002 2:31:26 PM
From: that_crazy_dougRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
<< The K6-3/450 smoked all other x86s in server work which does very little floating point. RDBMS servers liked it because it was very fast with their uses of BCD arithmetic and string handling. The combination of larger L1, full speed L2 and larger L3 (64KB, 256KB, 1024KB in my system) was faster than even AMD suspected (they were surprised that the L3 boosted scores by 5 to 10% depending on the application). It was the king on Linux kernel compile at the time. >>

While I don't doubt the k6-3 was a fine processor at certain tasks, I think most people building pc's for the general consumer market (which again my original point was aimed towards) would have been MUCH happier with a p2, p3, or celeron. The fact that it was a great linux compiler and server machine is great, but those aren't the tasks the majority of AMD's customers were performing. I would bet that the quake 3 performance of the machine was a much bigger factor then linux compiling when determining the success of the product.

As someone who has built 10 pcs a year or so, I can at least atest to the fact that I never considered an AMD product after the celeron 300a came out until the Athlon hit the streets (and I haven't considered an intel product since then either). I always wanted to buy AMD because it was cheaper, but it was fairly common knowledge at the time that if you ever wanted to play a 3d game, the k6-2/3 was not the way to go.
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