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To: Scumbria who wrote (39780)	4/13/2000 9:50:00 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, Make sure that you are comparing apples to apples when interpreting the data from these comparisons. Faster CPUs will generally produce higher benchmark scores than slower CPUs, regardless of other system issues. I just posted the details of these articles a couple of days ago: Message 13402486 Message 13403519 As you can see, they tended to test the 1Ghz and 8xxMhz systems as a group. In general, the 1Ghz PIII/RDRAM systems beat everything else. In the first link, the Dell B Series 866Mhz system with 128M RDRAM turned in equivalent scores as 3 Athlon 1Ghz systems (2 with 256M SDRAM and 1 with 128M SDRAM). In the second set of tests, the best PIII/RDRAM system scored 33% higher on the PC Worldbench 2000 test than the best Athlon system. And all 3 of the PIII/RDRAM systems scored better than the best Athlon system. What we say here isn't going to matter one whit to Joe Customer. These reviews, however, are. Some may try to claim that these are biased tests and explain them away, but Joe Customer isn't going to hear that -- all he sees are these final results. This is what we needed to see. I noticed Carl hasn't commented on these results. Too busy worried about Jeff Mitchell's resume, I guess. Dave