On Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002, at 10:27 US/Central, Brian wrote:

> I'm building an uber-number crunching box for a guy.  He wants the 
> best in
> everything, so naturaly I recomended an Athlon MP machine.  he had a 
> few
> choice words to say about the dual MPs, and wanted a single Athlon
> instead.  He wouldn't tell me WHY, other than "I've heard things".

Any perceived problems I've heard about athlon MPs were related to 
motherboard deficiencies.

On the same note, I've seen many athlons have serious performance 
degradations starting at about 6 months of normal use.

>
> Is Athlon MP a good choice?  Are there weird issues under various
> OS's?  (this box will be running dual Win2K/Linux).
>
> -Brian
>
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Ben Lutgens		
System Administrator
Sistina Software Inc		http://www.sistina.com
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