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To: JDN who wrote (34473)	8/17/2000 9:50:12 AM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

Re "OK, now I GOT to know why you say that?" Cos he has a personal dislike for Intel. Your P4 will outperform your P3, and soon enough the benchmarks will be public and you will see for yourself.

To: JDN who wrote (34473)	8/17/2000 12:01:26 PM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Re: OK, now I GOT to know why you say that? Me: clock for clock, the Pentium 4 is going to be a dog. My guess is a 1.1 Ghz Pentuim 3 will be faster or equal to a 1.4 Ghz Pentium 4. JDN, There are no "official" benchmarks out yet, so this is pure speculation. I'm getting this from reading hardware review sites on the Internet. Willamette should be out shortly and the benchmarks will speak for themselves. Another thing to consider is Willy will only be available with Rambus memory, so if you're like me and want at least 512 MB, you're looking at about $1000 over an equal SDRAM or DDR system configured equally. When Willy comes out, compare it with the highest speed PIII and the highest speed Athlon and make a decision then. I don't want to get into why the speculation is that Willy will be a dog, because I don't understand it well enough to explain. It has to do with the double pumped ALU though. chic