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To: Meathead who wrote (161186)	9/27/2000 10:50:27 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

meathead - you need to read carefully. Intel extended the Xeon brand to the chips used in 1 and 2 way systems. The big cache chips used in the servers did not drop in price, only the "high end desktop" chips. The article you cite correctly positions these as a response to Athlon in the high end desktop space. The big server chips just went from 550 to 700 MHz, there are no higher speed grades in those chips yet, and no price cuts. They can't use the other chips in a 4-way as far as I know, and in any event the only choices on DELL's web site for the 6450 are the 550 and 700 parts - see rcommerce.us.dell.com (or if that link does not work since it may be user specific, punch down from dell.com ) EDIT - and even if the XEONs were dropped substantially, can you translate that into the overall cost? We need to find some cost reductions in the thousands to justify the overall cut.