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To: Paul Engel who wrote (15678)	10/24/2000 4:58:31 AM
From: dougSF30	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Paul, Re: Then what would be the impact if the 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 was SIGNIFICANTLY faster than a 1.2 GHz AThlon in Quake III benchmarks? I'll take a stab: No one would be surprised because the P4 had a 300 MHz clock speed advantage, and you chose to compare it to Athlon instead of Mustang? (do we assume DDR, or no?) Doug p.s. Actually quake 3 is bandwidth hungry... might be one of P4's better benchmarks. Something more FPU intensive would probably maximally expose the low IPC and crappy FPU.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (15678)	10/24/2000 5:01:23 AM
From: Eric K.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Then what would be the impact if the 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 was SIGNIFICANTLY faster than a 1.2 GHz AThlon in Quake III benchmarks? We would have to read thirty, instead of twenty, diatribes a day from you about how great Intel is and how execrable and/or screwed AMD is? -Eric

To: Paul Engel who wrote (15678)	10/24/2000 8:45:24 AM
From: niceguy767	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Paul: "Then what would be the impact if the 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 was SIGNIFICANTLY faster than a 1.2 GHz AThlon in Quake III benchmarks?" Comment: About the same as the impact of 2 suns in the sky...and about the same probability of occurrence!!! Paul, you're speculating again...All pie-in-the-sky...talking about something (1.5 gig PIV) that doesn't and may never exist, at least competitively, as AMD is certainly not sitting on its hands while INTC is trying to figure out where they went wrong...The here-and-now is the 1.2 gig Athy...Where's its here-and-now competitor??? The 1.13 PWeeiii is in the dust heap, that's where...and that's the REALITY of the here-and-now!!!

To: Paul Engel who wrote (15678)	10/24/2000 1:31:04 PM
From: Paul Ma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Then people will face tradeoffs, and decide whether the opprotunity cost for going with the P4 is less or more than the opportunity cost for going with the Athlon. Paul