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To: Joe NYC who wrote (77755)	4/19/2002 7:19:12 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Johan at Aces posted his review of workstation / small business servers: aceshardware.com Here are the results from their ServerBench: aceshardware.com They have single P4 (does P4 support dual configuration or do you need Xeon?), single AXP, dual AXP. Dual AXP takes over as the load increases, but I found these numbers the most telling in the single processor configuration: Willamette 2 GHz 80,902 Palomino 2000+ 121,367 Northwood 2 GHz 127,629 The story is that you can have the brightest CPU designer, but if the management decision / execution problem prevent you from adding a simple thing (comperatively, vs. the effort it takes to design a chip with superior core) as increased L2 at the time your competition does, you are screwed. Decision to go with Thoroughbred with only 256K L2 was a huge mistake. And boast of the small die size are extremely hollow, since half of Dresden, and 75% of Austin Fabs are idle (IMO). Joe