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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (51260)	8/15/2001 4:27:54 PM
From: AK2004	Respond to of 275872

Pravin I am just wondering did amd started 1st with MP or intel? I have seen an article from Paul on intel thread about Xeon MP. :-)) Regards -Albert

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (51260)	8/15/2001 4:43:35 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

There's good and bad news for AMD in those Anandtech benchmark comparisons of the Intel i850 RDRAM chipset VIA P4X266 DDR chipset Intel i845 SDRAM chipset The good news is that i845 sucks on everything. In stuff like Microsoft Office, where P4 is already 30% slower than Athlon, the i850 is only a little ahead. But in all the standard "strongpoints" of the P4, P4/i845 is much slower. In other words, as I suspected, the P4/i845 combination at 2 GHz will be much slower than a 1.33 GHz Athlon in just about everything. The bad news, is that VIA's P4X266 is much closer to i850 performance than it is to i845 performance. Unless Intel really messes up on DDR support in the i845, a DDR/i845/P4 combination will be close to i850 performance, with a much lower platform cost. petz