Dear Fingolfen:
Fact 2 is not a fact but, a supposition on your part. The reviews are 50/50 and thus, 2G P4 may have matched in the P4 biased benchmark suites, it fails in those that use real world data and environments.
A super cooled 3GHz P4 does not show how it performs against a similarly cooled Palomino or Tbird run to the max. Tbirds have run at over 2GHz and do outrun 3GHz P4s in many benchmarks. I did not see the demo but, 100% CPU utilization occurs well before maximum thermal output. Heck, a cache thrashing CPU is at 100% use, yet it would be not doing very much in the way of thermal output. So fact 3 does not attest to their robustness. A P3-1.13 0.18 Al could do the same yet, it was definitely not robust! So, fact 3 is just another suposition.
Fact 4 is only a rumor. We do not know it to be true.
I do not like AMD's plan, if it is true. However, this is also a rumor and can not be considered true until verified by AMD or other such source. So goes your fact 5 down the tubes. However, I will send email to Toni to ask that this plan be dropped, just in case.
All in all, your facts are not facts. You wish they were.
Pete |
