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To: Dan3 who wrote (74746)	10/9/1999 1:34:00 PM
From: Goutam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572799

Dan, Copied from Aceshardware - aceshardware.com ________________________ Single CPU server benchmarks johan Saturday, October 16, 1999 (06:20 PM West-Europa (zomertijd)) A few days ago, I came across a very good processor test done by PC Professionell , the German Ziff Davies magazine. They tested several CPU's on their server capabilities. And the results were quite astonishing: CPU ZD serverbench 4.1 ZD Netbench 6.0 ============ ================== =============== Athlon 600 41.9 64.18 Athlon 550 38.7 61.8 K6-III 500 35.1 54.1 XEON 500 32.5 50.1 PIII 550 32.3 43 Celeron 500 22.5 33.2 Now, the K6-III might not be an option for big companies, but small companies should really consider this"forgotten processor" for a small single CPU server. The K6-III slaps its brother the Athlon and the Intel CPU's silly on clock for clock and bang for buck basis ! Note that the K6-III had 2 MB L2-cache [L3?]. Internet and server applications seem to like the Tri-level cache structure of the K6-III. aceshardware.com ________________________ Goutama

To: Dan3 who wrote (74746)	10/9/1999 1:51:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 1572799

Dan, Re: "Intel tactics" These Intel tactics were predictable. So why haven't the idiots at AMD had motherboards manufactured directly. 1M MBs at a $50 MB cost is $50M. Instead this brilliant management team is slashing CPU prices to account for hugh MB prices. And then pissing and moaning about everything from the earthqauke to intel scare tactics. What is wrong with this picture. Why is this management so DUMB I ask you. regards, Kash Johal.

To: Dan3 who wrote (74746)	10/9/1999 2:15:00 PM
From: Buckwheat	Respond to of 1572799

As I hinted in an earlier post a few days ago, Intel's board and chipset tactics are a lot more covert than openly strong-arming would-be AMD suppliers. Intel slowed BX and ZX production and now has temporarily pulled the plug on Camino production. What this has done is opened a near-term market opportunity for VIA and others in the premium chipset and board market. Potential volume and sales of Intel PIII family products is a lot more favorable and less risky than the Athlon family at this time. So if there is a great void (near-term) for them to fill in the Intel PIII support area, how much support and priority would you expect AMD might receive? What Intel has done is traded some motherboard and chipset sales for a means of distracting suppliers from AMD in the near-term. I don't think any of the infrastructure suppliers will devote much time or effort near-term on AMD until this perceived void if filled. The added catalyst is that these suppliers have lost several weeks of production due to the earthquake. Near-term, they are all most likely motivated to pump out as many "sure sell" products as possible to minimize those losses they incurred over the past few weeks. Buckwheat