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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (126950)	2/8/2001 3:42:58 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Thread, Anand reviews ServerWorks' chipset for SMP Pentium III: anandtech.com Although I doubt the ServerSet III HEsl chipset that Anand reviewed is very popular at the moment, the article does give us a glimpse into the design of ServerWorks' other chipsets. Remember that ServerWorks' chipsets currently go into the majority of Pentium III (Xeon) servers sold these days. Tenchusatsu P.S. - Milo already posted this link in an earlier post, but only to highlight a quote on AMD's 760MP chipset (which the article isn't about anyway).

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (126950)	2/9/2001 3:45:11 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu, this realworldtech article is dynamite. It proves that athy, unlike P4, is not a memory hog. It doesn't care much about either latency or bandwidth. From the summary at realworldtech.com but please read the whole thing: Well, as you can see there really isn’t that much difference between a well setup 200MHz FSB Athlon system using PC100 CAS 2 and one using PC133, or even a 266MHz FSB. To be honest I was surprised by the results. I would have expected to see a trend with the video test in particular that showed an advantage to PC133 & CAS 2 along with a 266MHz FSB. But I just didn’t see it. By looking at the results you can see that there are some programs that will perform better with PC133 CAS 2 or even a 266MHz FSB, but it seems to vary too much to give a good rule of thumb as to which those may be. This conclusion was reached using a 1.2 G Athlon and would have been even more true at lower speeds. It lends support to my assertion that a single channel of DDR PC2100 is way more than enough for a dual 1.2 GHz Athlon server, probably good at least up to dual 1.5's. In fact a PC133 dual Athlon system would work just fine at 1 GHz and be super cheap. Most of the articles benchmarking DDR, 266 MHz FSB, etc. in the AMD world have been using Durons, so the above conclusions may be surprising. Petz