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To: Goutam who wrote (73221)	9/27/1999 1:14:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1578556

Goutama, <Does any body (Steve,Charles,...?) have any info to substatntiate this rumor posted @ amdzone.com ---- HP To Ditch Xeon For Athlon?-Chris 'ruiner' Tom 12:59 a.m. CST Thanks to Legato for letting me know that he has heard that HP is going to ditch Xeon in some server models for Athlons. Cool. Gateway who?> Yes, HP has been rumored to be a candidate, but it has been clear from Gateway experience that the Athlon platform has not reached the "safety factor" to count design wins until the OEM starts shipping product. Having said that, Athlon core has many compelling advantages that make it a strong candidate in the server domain. We should learn more details in the next couple of weeks. I will wait. Chuck

To: Goutam who wrote (73221)	9/27/1999 1:18:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1578556

<--- Some very interesting revelations, here's some of the benchmark info that interested me the most in the reviews: o Camino offers a surprisingly strong boost in Business Winstone for NT, allowing the PIII-600B to jump way ahead of the PIII-600 and match the Athlon-600. There was also a strong boost for 3D Studio Max, but this only somewhat narrowed its performance against Athlon. o Camino offered little to no benefit in Sysmark, Business Winstone for 9x. o Athlon-550 is faster than PIII-600B in SysMark for 9x, SysMark for NT. o Athlon-500 is faster than PIII-600B in Q2Crusher, Q3Demo1, 3D Studio Max. o Athlon-500 is way above the PIII-600B in Half Life. o PIII-600B is slower than PIII-600 in Expendable and Half Life. o Anand reports a 0.9% increase in typical game performance from AGP2x to AGP4x o In most of the benchmarks, PIII-600B was indeed faster than PIII-600, but generally the difference was marginal.> Anand seems to have broken some new ground here. Looks like RDRAM was a bigger boost to some crucial benchmarks than many gave RDRAM credit for. Now, only if it can be "production-worthy"....