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To: Tony Viola who wrote (7290)	9/1/2000 11:53:46 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Tony, RE:"1. Why do you suppose they tested on so many different OS's? I don't know...probably they had a whole bunch of different machines and weren't able to configure them more identically. Maybe they got them from a store... RE:"2. Do you know that W2K will show better results than 98SE? Memory size is key there also. Yes, W2K definitely out-benches Win 98SE due to Win 98SE legacy. Just as NT out benches 98SE. Jim PS, it doesn't take a Phd to figure out how much faster in Mhz P4 has to be to be faster than a P3 or Athlon at least in the majority of benchmarks with a few optomized benchmarks thrown in. Just figure the fastest P3 or Athlon and figure the % difference between that and the slowest P4. Say 1.1 vs 1.4 on release. That's 27% IPC that needs to be made up with Mhz... At 1.2 vs 1.4 that about 14%. I suspect P4 has some head room so Intel should be able to stay marginally ahead in performance. If not and Athy gets to 1.3, 1.4, 1.5...then P4 will have a lot of skepical article written about it... Jim