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To: Scumbria who wrote (108251)	8/24/2000 4:20:12 PM
From: Burt Masnick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, try this from Ace's Hardware, well known as a shill for Intel's optimized benchmarks :) "The burning question is of course: how will the P4 do? Well, it is a very impressive architecture, due to the very efficient trace cache and the double clocked ALU's. I suspect that the Bert McComas, who has reported up to 25% lower clock for clock performance has tested on beta silicon with a beta chipset. In my humble opinion, *the P4 should be clock for clock as fast as the P6.* Believe it or not, but is pretty likely that the P4 has a better FPU than the P6!! Why? The P4 offers much more bandwidth via the L2-cache and the 400 MHz FSB than the P6 does. And do not forget it has a seperate FP Store/move unit, which the PIII has not." Oh yeah, he has this to add: "What follows is my speculation only. In most applications, the P4 should perform, clock for clock, equal or maybe even slightly better than the New Athlon." Scary, huh? Good grief if he's right then you're wrong. Good investing, Burt

To: Scumbria who wrote (108251)	8/24/2000 5:10:53 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "I'm quite certain that Intel will define a set of benchmarks favorable to P4" What would you say if Intel released benchmarks based on an unreleased motherboard, an unreleased version of DirectX and unreleased graphics drivers? Do you think that would be just fine? I don't remember you ever mentioning a word when AMD did (and continues to do) that for their TTurd. With your well earned reputation for falsifying claims, you could at least try and re-establish some sort of credibility. What do you think of a company that would do that? Tell the truth now. EP

To: Scumbria who wrote (108251)	8/24/2000 6:52:38 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

RE:"I'm quite certain that Intel will define a set of benchmarks favorable to P4. I'm more interested in the industry standard system benchmarks (like those reported in PCWorld), which are intended to mimic real world Window's applications." With large interests in ZDnet, Cnet and a huge advertising budget effecting other publications I'm afraid that AMD is SOL when it comes to getting a fair shake on comparative Athlon/Willy benchmarks. If Willy has the overhead Mhz I think it does it may not matter that much anyway. Intel will tout the speed crown, the press who loves to hype will love it... AMD will remain depressed until the market figures it all out... Jim