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To: Road Walker who wrote (123448)	9/1/2000 2:01:32 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579962

John, interesting note on optimized applications. We're seeing a divergence in x86 extensions. AMD has 3DNow, Enhanced 3DNow, and will soon have x86-64 extensions. Intel has SSE, SSE2, and IA-64. It's now a question of which extensions programmers will prefer. With limited budgets and tight schedules, I really doubt software developers can cater to both sides at the same time. (Microsoft is an exception, since limited budgets and tight schedules don't apply to them.) So which will they choose? I know for a fact that Intel tries to do a lot of handholding with software developers to get them to optimize toward Intel's platforms. I would be surprised if AMD didn't at least try to do the same. Tenchusatsu

To: Road Walker who wrote (123448)	9/1/2000 3:51:53 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1579962

John, <Do todays PC's handle the growing applications such as digital photography, video editing, video streaming, more realistic games, etc as well as they could, no.> Video streaming at broadband rates is an order of magnitude easier than anything else on the list, and thats the only thing on your list that's internet-related. I think the Content Creation Winstone benchmark captures all of the benchmarks you list. I don't think benchmarks should run just one application at a time. If you are rendering 5 minutes of video, there's a very good chance you will be doing something else in parallel on your PC. Let's hope ZD Labs, Bapco & company keep this in mind. Here's another rant on benchmarks: I've kind of lost interest in game benchmarks run on the latest super-duper video card but at 640 x 480 resolution. What's the point? If you have a GeForce Ultra or whatever, you don't need a GHz CPU. Petz