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To: Tony Viola who wrote (126958)	2/8/2001 7:47:37 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 186894

Tony, Yes, it does look as if it was not a custom board, what with sound, although if it is in the chip set leaving sound out saves only about $3 for the final audio o/p and jack rack. It does make a start on a dual CPU system for the Athlon and that can be quite capable as well as economical. Some kind of relative benchmarking is needed, I imagine once they are starting to sell they will send one to Tom's or Anandtech to see what it does. In fact now that the board is out I expect a cluster of such solutions to appear...this is just the first. Once these boards prove/disprove their capability we will be able to decide what future AMD has in servers. In addition, the server majors players will not sit back and allow other smaller players to nibble at the edges of their share. they will buy a few and test them to destruction and one fine day they may design their own board based on that chipset to defend that market segment. Bill