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To: jcholewa who wrote (67519)	1/10/2002 1:18:25 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) of 275872

JC, "SuperPi's performance characteristics do not, in my opinion, model any real world scenario. They are almost totally pointless, especially if you're trying to analyze the effect of chipsets on system performance." I think you totally missed the point. In my understanding, Dan's message contained two important points: 1. Athlon platforms are capable to run at 210MHz FSB, supporting the idea of AMD being capable to increase the FSB in order to gain/maintain platform performance. 2. Lower-speed CPU with higher-speed FSB outperforms higher speed CPU, which indicates that the particular application has a fair amount of off-chip traffic, a feature that is not uncommon in many SPEC apps. The point was to illustrate that faster FSB could be more important than the core speed, and will be increasingly important given the growing gap between slow memory performance and blazing CPU speeds. The fact that the platform was able to run any sort of operating system is itself a big achievement and proof of concept. - Ali

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