Ok, I'm sold on the Athlon chip (easy sale : ), but can anyone fill me in on
dual processor boards? What's wrong with Tyan et cetera? Briefly. Thanks.
~:>(X){athl-on;athl-on;athl-on;o uch!!!!
Blinky's been generating too much Methane again and managed to find a book
of matches. The screw little ramjet tyke!!! Still, he's the only penguin
that can fly.
Dennis, his pal
> From: Justin Bengtson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 08:59:15 -0700
> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:2175] Re: PC Training aka Stan's has this...
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> i saw some benchmarks for the Athlon MP and it's just absolutely sweet. it
> pretty much blew away the pentium 4 in everything but one test, in dual and
> single config, running at a lower speed.
>
> as a side note, the current athlon chipset running at @1.5 keeps pretty good
> pace with the P4.
>
> you can bet i'm going to save my pennies for a quad athlon MP board...
> well, if anybody other than Tyan starts making the mobos...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garl R. Grigsby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:04 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:2172] Re: PC Training aka Stan's has this...
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>> That's cool. I'd like my next Linux box to be dual processor. I've had
> very
>> good luck with my dual processor Pentium Pro boxes (under both Linux and
>> Windows 2000).
>
> I run several dual PPro 200 boxes here at work for various tasks. Very fast
> for
> a PPro class machine.
>
>> I noticed (subjectively) a nice performance jump with dual
>> processor under Linux. About a year ago or so, dual processor Celeron
> boards
>> were popular, but then I came across someone saying Intel has fuzzed up
> the
>> Celerons so they wouldn't work on dual processor boards because the cheap
>> little processors were cutting into their Pentium III (or IV?) sales for
>> multiprocessor servers.
>>
>
> I remember hearing something about that, but I can't remember where.
> Shouldn't
> be too hard to dig up on the web though.
>
>>
>> Can anyone confirm this? Is there an inexpensive route to dual processors
>> using the AMD's Athlon chips. That I would like to try, you bet1
>>
>
> AMD **just** released their multiprocessor chipset so they would be
> expensive
> right now. Give it 6 months. The way they are flying off the shelf, prices
> should drop quickly. They are reportedly unbelievably fast too.
>
>>
>> Dennis
>>
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>>> Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:27:19 -0700 (PDT)
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