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To: bowledover who wrote (23223)	11/8/2001 6:43:29 AM
From: Zardoz	Read Replies (5) of 110652

emulators.com While the new architecture looked promising on paper, the actual implementation of the Pentium 4 is a castrated version of the ideal chip that Intel set out to design. Intel selectively left out important implementation details of the Pentium 4, which they finally revealed with the posting of the Intel Pentium 4 Processor Optimization manual on their web site. In an attempt to cover up their design defects, Intel has been forced to carefully word their optimization document. I encourage all software developers and technically literate computer users to download the Pentium 4 optimization manual mentioned above, and to also for comparison to download and study the Pentium III manuals as well as the AMD Athlon manual. It does not take a rocket scientist to read and compare the three sets of processors to realize what the design flaws in the Pentium 4 are. If you read on, the article mention that unless you are running optimized complier Software, you'll have to wait a long time for new games to use the SSE codes of the P4. And by that time AMD will have caught up, and past. But as it stands from the benchmarking, A 900Mhz Athlon beats a 1.5G P4... since you can now buy a 1.5G Athlon, how much more speed does the AMD chip have over Intel... LOTS. Seti@home {a very intense number crunching program} takes 2hours 45 minutes to complete one work unit on my computer Athlon 1.4Ghz {over clocked from 1.33Ghz} The standarized P4 {1.8Ghz} take about 3 hours +/- 5 minutes. Benchmarking must be done carefully cause it is possible to optimize Athlons to use that 3D Now stuff as well. Zardoz.... Athlon kicks P4 butt to chip hell

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