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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (111540)	9/27/2000 1:44:49 PM
From: pgerassi	Respond to of 186894

Dear Tench: I do not think they are good benchmarks. And Intel does publish benchmarks that can not be verified (and so do a lot of others). No one but you may have your ideal benchmark. Everyone that has tried, has failed to produce the Ideal Benchmark. It may even be proven that one can not exist. Some people do not even care about repeatability, confirmation, and configuration, just that it is "faster" than another. The 2 GHz P4 Demo is even worse. But all the Intelites cite it just the same. That is less than example 2. Others (not Intel) have shown test results of P4s that may or not be production worthy. These show a high bandwidth (at least that part works as advertised) but poor performance on most widely used benchmarks except Q3. That result I find puzzling. I do not discount it. I take it as shedding light on the things that the Q3 benchmark stresses (it is different than the typical interpretation of Q3 results). I am sure someone will follow up to explain this for all concerned. Since I was not at IDF Fall 2000, I do not know exactly what Intel published about the WME benchmark. I find that Tom's analysis is interesting however. Pete