Dear Paul:
Why should someone who paid big bucks for a program or application need to upgrade just because a new computer came along? In the world of business, if the new computer doesn't outperform the older computer, the new computer is gone. Even business would claim that the newer system was slower even if it was more expensive. That there were two strikes against it makes it even worse. But dropping the price still makes it a bad computer for their application.
People do not replace $12,000,000 applications because a new CPU from Intel runs poorly on them. They just do not buy the new CPU. Now when a new CPU from someone else comes along that does outperform their old systems and is cheaper to boot, well that is two reasons to buy it.
Now my system 1.2GHz outruns a 1.5GHz P4 and giving the benefit of the doubt by linear scaling, it outruns a 1.7GHz P4. When it is overclocked to 1425 (150x9.5) it outruns a 2GHz P4 at the same scale. And that is running on PC150 CAS2 SDRAM using an older OS, Win98SE, compared to a dual channel PC800 P4 using Win2Kpro. With both PC2400 and Win2Kpro, it would bench even faster than a 2.25GHz P4, same memory amount and OS. This is with SciMark. Another set of large computing benchmarks are RC5 code cracking, and Think (Cancer research). In all of these, it outruns all normally cooled P4s out there and many of those that are exotically cooled (maybe all but, I haven't seen any benchmarks for those).
Pete |
