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To: Paul Engel who wrote (126509)	2/3/2001 9:27:20 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: 1 to 8 700MHz or 900MHz Pentium III Xeon processors 1MB or 2MB L2 cache 100 MHz front-side bus 100MHZ FSB? In a machine that's expected to deal with mulitple processors on a shared memory bus? 8 900MHz CPUs sharing a single 100MHz memory bus? Ouch! I think I see a serious bottleneck here. Intel is extremely lucky AMD hasn't been able to ship its 266MHZ memory bus systems with point to point architecture. Intel dodged a bullet there, didn't they? If (looking unlikely, I suppose) AMD ever ships SMP Athlon systems, they will dramatically outperform Intel's old clunkers. Dan PS - what was up with those reports of quad processor Athlon systems at LinuxWorld? Those were just 2 dual processor boards in each rackmount unit, right? Or are the quads already in testing?