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To: Robohogs who wrote (80818)	5/28/2002 12:43:24 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) of 275872

"why would the comments attributed to AMD in this article have ever been made" My take on all this is that the Opteron performance is highly overhyped, and raises too high expectations. There is no free lunch in performance anymore, IMO. As I expressed on several occasions, the Opteron architecture cannot perform dramatically faster than any other existing architecture - Athlon or P4, even given the embedded memory controller. Now, if things are not polished up to full-blown specifications (I mostly suspect the HyperTransport, and maybe more of the DDR memory controller itself), the overall system performance may not be impressive. BTW, same concerns were expressed when first Athlon systems were sampled to some board manufacturers, with extremely conservative BIOS settings and lots of performance-enhancing features disabled, both in the CPU and in the North bridge. - Ali

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