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To: Elmer who wrote (69449)	1/29/2002 9:49:16 PM
From: stribe30	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Crippled Athlon XP Beats Northwood Everything is relative with benchmarks: the Register tested out a crippled Athlon XP 2000+ (running at 1265Mhz on a 100FSB setting on a wonky motherboard) and it was able to best the P4 Northwood. ------------- So, what do we know? We know that the Northwood/RDRAM system runs almost twice as fast as our crippled Athlon test-system and costs almost twice as much. And it does deliver in situations where the CPU is stressed. But we're getting very good through-put with the AMD system (or piss poor through-put on the Intel system); As it is, the Athlon system runs quite tolerably on Linux and Windows in spite of significant obstacles from Gigabyte's engineers. If one had a more 'mature' AXP/DDR mobo, and could run the Athlon at its full potential, one would probably never notice the difference in CPU clock speed with everyday tasks, and the money saved could go into something very sweet like a really powerful graphics accelerator. For gaming, the resulting AMD system would blow the doors off the Northwood system as we tested it. ------------------ theregister.co.uk

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