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To: Paul Engel who wrote (158293)	2/10/2002 9:17:59 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

pAUL, Microsoft gets it's friend AMD to testify for them? Where's Microsoft's buddy iNteL? Looks like your "AMD is whining" story is just more hot air from you. story.news.yahoo.com "Microsoft exchanged witness lists with the nine dissenting state attorneys general on Friday night, according to Desler. In its list, Microsoft also included witnesses from a variety of industries. Among them are computer manufacturer Compaq (news - web sites) , chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and retailer Best Buy Inc. , as well as executives from the telecommunications and cable television industries." sTeViE

To: Paul Engel who wrote (158293)	2/11/2002 10:59:48 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, others - check out Tom's Hardware on dual Athlons. tomshardware.com Here's a couple notable quotes. tomshardware.com "We were not able to activate the MP mode of Quake 3 in Windows 2000 SP2. Result: the benchmark caused a system crash." tomshardware.com "To pre-empt unstable operating performance, dual Athlon boards should always be equipped with what are known as "registered" memory modules. Asus and MSI specify 4 GB as the maximum level of operating memory. It's a little different in practice: with "registered" memory, you can only expand up to 3.5 GB - if a conventional module is used, 3 GB is the maximum." tomshardware.com "Software support is a sore point in dual CPU operation. Very few applications work perfectly with two processors. What good is the best dual platform if the software isn't there to take full advantage of it? Lightwave from Newtek offers a convincing example of this: on average, a single Pentium 4 is just as fast in this application as a dual Athlon system. The reason is that Intel has had the software optimized for the Pentium 4. So, if you want to take a leap into the dualie world, give it a try, but be aware of the limitations and software issues involved." wbmw