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To: jcholewa who wrote (8664)	9/15/2000 10:16:15 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

AMD Durons, T'birds to get dual support? theregister.co.uk JC, meet Mike Magee. According to JC's Pages, the 760MP will sample in December, and mobos will be on the market in the first quarter of next year. Link works in the original, of course. I'm confused here, though. I was under the impression that the vanilla 760 supported dual processors, while the 760 mp additionally supported the LDT n-way multiprocessor linking. Maybe the 760 is really just uniprocessor, the 760mp is 2-way, and something else is n-way? Further down, on the mysterious disappearing C0 stepping front: Intel, meanwhile, has posted a note of mystery about the steppings of the Pentium III on its Developer pages, A reader points out: "There is a curious note (12) in the list of steppings of the FC-PGA PIII, in the latest Spec update. It says many of the FC-PGA cC0 Pentium IIIs cannot be used in dual processor systems. Is Intel just typo happy or have they stepped into it again? This would be very lame to the people who have been waiting to use these supposedly improved versions in their systems." Cheers, Dan.

To: jcholewa who wrote (8664)	9/15/2000 10:44:48 AM
From: that_crazy_doug	Respond to of 275872

<< Don't get me wrong ... I'm no expert here. But I get a similar impression in the opposite direction. Sure, optimization efforts are increasing, but I haven't heard much about new games supporting the extensions. Now, of course, video drivers for games may do so, but that's a slightly different issue. >> If this is true, than it lends even more credence to the p4 SSE2 benchmarks, since only one driver needs to be changed for your geforce 2 ultra to get many of the SSE2 benefits in all your games.