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To: pgerassi who wrote (114223)	6/5/2000 1:28:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578147

Re: "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." Nice try but it doesn't wash. What pullbacks are you referring to? Do you take everything from theregister.co.uk are gospel? AMD has had 3 1/2 years to get things right at Dresden. Don't pull that lame BIOS excuse. Fact is that after all this time, copper interconnects don't do squat. Intel told you that a year or more ago when they said they didn't need them for .18u. This is a major disappointment and there's no way around it. AMD has had 3 1/2 years and they couldn't build any inventory above 1GHz. Live with it. Re: "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!)." Riiiiiiiiight! 2 Athlons connected by network cards do not make a SMP system in my book. AMD (or anyone else) has never shipped a K7 chipset die that supported SMP. Intel has never shipped a P6 chipset die that didn't. EP