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To: Dan3 who wrote (123753)	12/28/2000 6:10:04 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) of 186894

Dan, RE:"And the latest P4, on expensive dual channel motherboards, doesn't run mainstream software as well as the trailing edge of the competition" I keep seeing excuses being made for the P4 such as the Pentium Pro... There are a lot of dissimilarities with the Pentium Pro. Pentium Pro came out at 150 Mhz I believe. Slower than the classic Pentium at the time although it moved to 180Mhz and 200 Mhz it still had no real Mhz advantage. P4 has a Mhz advantage. That's the good news. Bad ness is that the IPC is bad. I also hear that the P4 will run future apps well once these are redesigned for it. Not quite sure if this is a pure analogy with the Pentium Pro. Maybe someone can elaborate. Pentium Pro had a big FPU advantage over the competition and even the classic Pentium. P4 seems to gain it's edge by using expensive dual channel RAM and SSE2 instructions (not unlike the boost the K6-2 got from 3DNOW). Unlike the Pentium Pro the P4 core doesn't seem as robust on it's own merit. Maybe someone can elaborate on that. What I would like to see is a revolutionary new chip not another one with reworked RAM and instructions. Jim

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