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To: combjelly who wrote (43666)	6/10/2001 3:22:17 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Yes it does. And on a Xeon system where there are 4 processors sharing the same PC100 or PC133 64 bit wide memory bus, it keeps the performance up. But on a (so far) hypothetical 4 way AMD system, a 1 or 2 meg cache Athlon would perform about the same as a 512k Athlon, and cost a great deal more. In addition, it probably would not clock as high. The high price of those large cache Xeons make a difference as far as market share goes, else the small cache Xeons wouldn't out sell them at a high rate. I see what you are saying... I was just making the point that it would be nice to see AMD get some of that high ASP territory. I wasn't aware that they had to make a choice between mobile and Mustang w/512k like Kap suggested. I don't know why they couldn't have both...unless they knew 4 and 8 way was a big problem and decided even though they made a Mustang there wouldn't be a chipset for it? RE:"Someone needs to light a fire under API so that they get that northbridge with HTT out. I sure would love to seen an 8 way 1.4GHz Athlon MP benched against anything that Intel can throw togerther" Who is API? Are they working on an 8 way? Jim

To: combjelly who wrote (43666)	6/10/2001 4:03:21 PM
From: ptanner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

comb, Re: "And on a Xeon system where there are 4 processors sharing the same PC100 or PC133 64 bit wide memory bus, it keeps the performance up." Don't some/most of the server chipsets for the 4+ systems have dual or quad (or better) SDRAM memory paths? -PT

To: combjelly who wrote (43666)	6/11/2001 12:01:15 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: "But on a (so far) hypothetical 4 way AMD system, a 1 or 2 meg cache Athlon would perform about the same as a 512k Athlon, " Let's see....a non-existent but-Hypothetical 4-way AthWiper system - composed of non-existent-but-hypothetical-AthWipers-with-non-existent-1-or-2-MegaBytes of cache would perform ABOUT THE SAME as a non-existent-hypothetical-4-way-AthWiper-system with a non-exitenet-but-hypothetical-512K- of-L2-cache. I suppose you have made extensive - but non-existent-simulations to verify these "hypothetical" results ! AMDroid logic - you just can't beat it !