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To: Elmer who wrote (114212)	6/5/2000 1:12:00 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578082

Dear Elmer: The launch has begun. Compared to the Intel launch (and pullbacks) of the 933Mhz and 1Ghz coppermines & xeons, this is going great. If the volumes of 1Ghz Thunderbirds are now as good as 950Mhz K75s, Intel is a world of hurt. The benchmarks will probably improve when the BIOS and chipset settings are optimized for these benchmarks. AMD is shooting for what Intel used to be able to get, stability. When stability is assured, the performance increases. This has happened for all processor introductions. We have not send the chipsets from AMD (760), Micron (DDR), and Ali (DDR). Anand compared a KT133 against an overclocked BX (overclocking the AGP that gets higher video rates), and an 840 with dual DRDRAM with expensive PC800 memory. The Thunderbird held its own and when video speed not used, blew away the PIII on all platforms. No scientific benchmarks were used by either Toms or Anands reviews (the OGL viewperfs do not count). I wonder how Thunderbird runs on Moldyn, OMC, Linpack, or other such FPU intensive benches. By the way, a simple way to get a dual (or more) Athlon system is called "Beowulf". Two 700Mhz Durons (Even two 700Mhz K75s) in such a setup will blow away your setup. Of course you would have to use Linux instead of Windows (too bad!). Pete