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To: Paul Engel who wrote (126181)	1/28/2001 7:09:17 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

From an outfit that loves dual PIII on 840... Intel's Pentium 4 Workstation Blunder Here at CSA, we try hard to keep abreast of the latest developments in high performance Personal Computer technology. After all, we have long prided ourselves on taking an aggressive stance towards cutting-edge technologies, including desktop Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP)... Conclusions Ouch! So much for the "it's faster so you only need one" argument. Even with 766 additional MHz, the Pentium 4 system took nearly twice as long as the i840-based SMP workstation to complete the same knowledge-centric test scenario. For workstation-class users who spend a great deal of time interacting with multiple data sources - financial analysts, stock brokers, supply chain managers - this translates into a huge productivity boost as tasks are completed more quickly and more tasks can be effectively juggled at the same time. But don't take our word for it! Download the Benchmark Studio beta and do some testing of your own. The folks over at Inquest Market Research did and, surprise, they came to a similar conclusion: No matter how Intel tries to slice the Pentium 4, single-processor workstation argument, two heads are still better than one - in this case, nearly 80% better! Bottom Line: Unless you spend your entire day "heads down" in just one or two Pentium 4-optimized applications, you're probably better off sticking with your trusty i840 or i440GX-based workstation. That is, until Intel reverses course again next year and "rediscovers" the many virtues of workstation Symmetrical Multiprocessing. In the meantime, if you simply must have a greater-than-1GHz SMP box, check out AMD's forthcoming 760MP chipset. With support for up to two AMD Athlon CPUs and Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM, this dual-processor "barnstormer" is poised to wrest control of the SMP workstation market that Intel worked so diligently to craft before abruptly abandoning it on the Pentium 4 alter xpnet.com xpnet.com If the day ever comes that AMD actually ships the 760MP, Intel will have a problem. Meanwhile, no problem! Dan