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To: dougSF30 who wrote (188889)	3/7/2006 7:02:20 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (2) of 275872

Dear Doug: I just looked at Unreal 2004 benchmarks and a FX-57 did 189.5 FPS with a single 6800GT PCI-E card. Even a 4800X2 (2x2.4GHz) did 164 FPS on Tom's hardware CPU shoot-out. It was 0.5FPS faster than a FX-53 (1x2.4GHz) using slower memory and the same 6800GT card. That means that a FX-62 likely went up to 190 FPS at the same settings on a 6800GT card. I find it quite disturbing that a lower power video card ran faster than a top end X1900XTX (2x$584) in a crossfire ($238) setup (total $1406+Conroe). ATI wouldn't sell many X1900XTX Conroe 2.66GHz setups, if a simple Asus A8NSLI MB ($119), FX-57 ($814) and a 6800GT ($223) could match it (total $1156 with CPU). And before any upgrade to AM2. And they could have pulled a simple stunt like with Skype on the driver that the faster path is taken when the CPUID says "GenuineIntel". Just "running with the same driver" is so fraught with loopholes that you can drive a Terex dump truck (its so large it could haul away your house) through them. I'll wait for some totally independent third party testing Conroe against A64 FX. Pete

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