"He incorrectly attributed differences in Business Winstone performance to the graphics cards. Not to mention that he called ME a moron"
I second his opinion. Video system performance plays
tremendous role in Business Winstone. All bus. applications
are no more than Windows painting, re-painting, and
menu popping, which require serious bit-blitting
functionality to perform well. Why do you think so
much attention is paid to maintaining screen resolutions
and color depth, why would people religiously mention
video driver versions and sub-versions?
Now, the S3 Twister is an integrated chipset, with
Unified Memory Architecture, as opposed to 32MB of
super-last GeForce4, a dedicated AGP chip. The UMA
video sucks up a significant portion of memory bandwidth
which hammers all other performances. Could you
find for me any benchmarks for i815 system with
integrated video, and for the same system with any
dedicated AGP card - GeForceX, or even Matrox G400?
I do not recall seeing these data, they are not
published, for obvious reasons.
For notebooks, as an example, there is review of few
P-III- 1GHz machines,
common.ziffdavisinternet.com
where Business Winstone 2001 ranges from 23.7 to 30.4.
I guess you have to conclude than the
"Internet Streaming SIMD Extensions" in one P-III
lose credibility in front of "Intel® MMX™ media
enhancement technology" of another P-III.
In brief, you shown off yourself as an arrogant moron,
classic Intel-style. Dan3 was right in his assertion
about you.
- Ali |
