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To: sylvester80 who wrote (53793)	9/18/2000 1:09:38 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Sylvester, Most of the PC133 vs. DRDRAM benchmarks published on the Web have shown PC133 ahead, including Intel's own web site. Scumbria

To: sylvester80 who wrote (53793)	9/18/2000 2:54:45 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 93625

<When knowingly benchmarks differ than even previous benchmarks posted, and everyone else for that matter, fraud is the best word that...> Dear Sylvester, You need to take a deep breath and calm down a little. It is well known fact that some benchmarks may go down on newer systems than on the early system. The reason is the more and more deep microcode updates. The "microcode update" technique is used by Intel to patch numerous bugs that are being continuously discovered in the course of wide field debug on cusromer's premises. The microcode patch gets loaded from BIOS upon system re-boot. If some hardware-enhanced feature is broken or "unstable", the patch will work around the problem either by disabling the feature or replacing it with longer set of micro-ops. In both cases some software codes will run slower, and this makes benchmark scores lower. Couple of years ago this effect was noticed on ASUS (or Abit?) boards with P-II processors, and board maker posted the excuse on their website. <Maybe you have a better word. You welcome to use it.> Yes, the better description would be "ignorance". I just wonder whos it may be...