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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (153865)	1/5/2002 3:44:00 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Constantine, Re: "Not to burst your bubble or anything but won't one prestonia cost as much as 2 Athlon XP 1800+?" A single Athlon MP 1800+ costs $273, according to their web site. Intel lists the 1.7GHz Xeon at $256 and the 2.0GHz Xeon at $455. I would imagine that the 1.8GHz Prestonia will come in between these two in price. And perhaps, since there will also be a 2.0GHz and 2.2GHz Prestonia, it may even be less expensive than this range. Any workstation employing a single CPU will be able to use Hyperthreading on the Prestonia CPU to create two virtual CPUs, and as you saw from the author's "Second Pass" results, a single Prestonia blows away a single Athlon MP/XP. A single Prestonia processor even comes close to two Athlon MP processors in performance. If Intel can get the performance of two Prestonia processors (accounting for 4 virtual CPUs) to be bug free, then the performance increase here should make them well worth the small premium. AMD may well have to lower their prices some more. wbmw