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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (7283)	9/1/2000 11:03:07 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Jim, >Looks like a P4 1.4 Ghz is about 18% faster than a 1.0 Ghz Thunderbird BUT the P4 was running on 98SE and the T-bird on W2k which probably means the P4 is even faster... Two questions: 1. Why do you suppose they tested on so many different OS's? 2. Do you know that W2K will show better results than 98SE? Memory size is key there also. Tony

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (7283)	9/1/2000 11:16:03 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Jim, I thought the listings were sort of a mess, with a lot of overclocking and different OS's mixed in. But it looks like a relatively small benchmark, it shouldn't be very OS dependent. Ok, I did a search, gogo235 is apparently an MP3 encoder, which is the kind of app the P4 is supposed to be optimized for. It's listed as optimized for MMX, SSE, and 3DNow, if supported, but not SSE2. See homepage1.nifty.com and homepage1.nifty.com . The P4 results look ok, but not that scary, depending on whether SSE2 would buy the P4 much over SSE. Cheers, Dan.