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To: Paul Engel who wrote (84714)	1/3/2000 3:19:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573088

engel: AMD ATHLON - the fastest x86 processor in the world! "The only system that came close to earning the score recorded in the CRN Test Center by the 800MHz Athlon unit was a 733MHz Pentium III reference system using an early-design Intel motherboard and Rambus memory. That Intel system scored 645, 6.5 percent behind the 800MHz Athlon" Engel: Looks like the Spry Coppy may still be the winner ! Given a 9.1% SPEED handicap, it was only 6.5% slower than the not-yet-available 800 MHz AthWipey ! NICE TRY, but did you notice that those early-design Intel motherboard and Rambus memory systems are the ones that DIDN'T WORK! When Intel "fixed" this problem, they did it by SLOWING DOWN THE CHIPSET by 5-10%. Check out this quote from tomshardware.com Quite a while ago and still prior to i820's final release we received i820-motherboards from Intel that came with the initial three RIMM-slots. For some reason the performance of those nowadays obsolete platforms was significantly better than the new crop of the official i820-boards with only 2 RIMM-slots. As a matter of fact the new i820-motherboards score worse than BX in several NT-benchmarks, as you will see later. This is not an issue with the Asus P3C alone, all the other i820-boards we tested scored just as bad... RE: Given a 9.1% SPEED handicap, it was only 6.5% slower than the not-yet-available 800 MHz AthWipey ! Do you really think that increasing the clock speed by 9.1% will increase business application performance by anything close to 6.5%? (BAPCO Sysmark for Windows NT) (hint: try 4.5%) Petz