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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan3 who wrote (69901)	8/25/1999 11:18:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1576210

Re: "I'm suspicious of the 8-way more than doubling performance of the 4-way on 2000. I don't doubt that's what was observed, but it may that they never had the opportunity to compare equivalent systems. (eg W2k beta 1 on the 4-way vs W2k RC1 on the 8-way if that was what was available when each system was set up)" I think your suspicion is probably correct. I don't expect the profusion chipset to more than double performance of 8-way vrs 4-way, but the post that kind of kicked this off was the claim by someone here (don't remember who) that Microsoft was really disappointed by how poor the scaling was on the P6 bus. It might be more accurate to say that Intel was upset with how badly NT (4.0) scales. EP