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To: milo_morai who wrote (63666)	11/14/2001 4:50:25 AM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) of 275872

The Athlon XP 1900+ seems to be dominating once again, but two facts serve to explain its superior results. First, the video drivers that were used to test the Athlon XP 1900+ were the most recent, v2183 WHQL drivers from Nvidia, while the other systems were using slightly older drivers. Second, the Athlon XP 1900+ was tested on a motherboard using the newer KT266A chipset, which is reputed to take better advantage of the AMD Athlon than any previous platform. The long and the short of it is, that if we remove these advantages from the XP 1900+'s score, we would likely end-up with scores lying in the vicinity of 215 to 225 FPS. Let me try and understand. If you use slower hardware and software the benchmarks will run slower. Who would have thought it. Why are these reviews always trying to talk down the Athlon's outstanding performance? It is not like they were using Beta hardware or software. The results are what most people will see when buying an Athlon system, which is more than can be said for those RDRAM equipped P4 systems.

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