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To: Dan3 who wrote (104972)	4/13/2000 2:04:00 PM
From: crazyoldman	Respond to of 1575866

Hello Dan3, Re: ..: the move from the value market to the corporate market where prices are much higher for products the cost pretty much the same to produce. Agreed! I just thought I'd update the members of this thread of my recent Athlon NT server experience. To review: we have a 200 MHz pentium server and one of the client mechines (a 400 MHz peeweeII), this combo took 13 min 4 secs to complete a frequently performed operation. Last week I posted that using an Athlon 700 MHz Win98 client and a 700 MHz Athlon NT server, that same operation was taking a little over 3 minutes. After some tuning efforts on the 700 MHz Athlon server, I am pleased to report that the time for that same operation is now 2 minutes 20 secs! What I'm seeing here is that using Athlon based systems results in outstanding performance! The performance increase is better than I would have guessed. Also amazing is the cost of upgrading to the 700 MHz Athlon systems (client/server) is about 1/2 the cost of our existing systems. Based on my observations, AMD has a clear shot at the corporate market. I realized that multiprocessor chipsets and motherboards for the Athlon have yet to appear but using motherboards and processors purchased in Feb. '2000 I see compelling reasons for the corporate market to embrace AMD's Athlon systems with open arms and smiling faces. NT installation was straight forward, the Athlon has no problem whatsoever with Win NT 4.0 server. There were absolutely no incidents in getting these two machines to perform flawlessly as client and server. BOTH of these Athlon based systems run ever so S M O O T H L Y !!! Kindest regards, CrazyMan P.S. My boss is most pleased!