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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (52694)	3/16/1999 3:32:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577111

Ten, Your comparison is invalid. No one buys Xeon or Pentium III systems if they care about price/performance ratios. They buy them if they care about pure performance. Intel is advertising that Xeon/SSE will enhance graphics performance. That is true for a cheap graphics card. You are saying that nobody will put a cheap graphics card on a Xeon workstation. This renders Intel's claims rather meaningless. I'm saying that you can get almost as good workstation performance from a Celeron, as you can from a Xeon. Scumbria

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (52694)	3/16/1999 4:49:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577111

<No one buys Xeon or Pentium III systems if they care about price/performance ratios. They buy them if they care about pure performance.> I believe that you have not considered one possibility where the buyer thinks that he is considering price/performance, but ends up with the Xeon. If you buy a server, and it includes Windows NT, SQL Server, lots of RAM and lots of disk then you will be paying $10-20K or more for the machine. In this configuration the rest of the stuff dwarfs the CPU chip cost. Even a 3% increase in performance may be considered a bargain for $500 increase in price in a $20,000 system. This is also why programmers in the mainframe world would spend many months to hand optimize the OS and application software of a $10,000,000 machine to increase the speed %1. They reasoned that this was the equivalent of $100,000 saved through the life of the machine. The notion of price/performance is in eye of the beholder.