Conclusions
Obviously, any conclusions we'd draw from these few benchmark tests would only be preliminary. From what we've seen so far, the new Athlon MP 1800+ is a fairly substantial gain over the 1.2GHz model, but it's nothing earth shattering. Since both chips are the same internally, only a 333MHz gap in clock speed separates them. Our handful of tests here has shown that AMD's dual-processor platform scales well with higher frequency CPUs.

Less than a week ago, we crowned the Athlon XP 1800+ the world's fastest x86-compatible processor. The Athlon MP 1800+ is the same thing, only twice. Combined with the AMD 760MP's dual front-side busses, the Athlon MP 1800+ ought to make for some of the fastest workstations and mid-range servers anywhere. We'll explore AMD duallies in more depth soon, so stay tuned.