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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan3 who wrote (116327)	6/18/2000 8:59:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571855

Re: "That's right. While Intel was shipping the 820, the 840, and profusion, AMD, VIA, and Alpha decided not to ship their products until they finished testing them, and corrected any flaws that showed up in testing." Ted, Alpha has been shipping SMP MBs for a long time and Athlon was supposed to be able to use those MBs with a different bios. Athlon doesn't work in SMP systems, even though there are SMP MBs available. For purposes of SMP the CPU is defective. Plain and simple. The other SMP hopeful chipsets are potentially cheaper but the processor has to work first. In the mean time, Intel has never shipped a single P6 generation chipset die that wasn't SMP capable. EP