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To: andreas_wonisch who wrote (20232)	11/22/2000 4:03:49 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 275872

I liked the preceding page, too Let's summarize the latest findings: Pentium 4 scores very badly in MPEG4 encoding benchmarks once the IEEE high quality iDCT is used. Pentium 4 runs current office applications slower than Pentium 3 and much slower than AMD's Athlon, as proven in our Sysmark 2000 benchmark results from Monday. Pentium 4 scores worse than Athlon in Unreal Tournament. Pentium 4 is a very bad solution for compilations with gcc 2.95.2 under Linux. Pentium 4 scores very badly in 3D Studio Max , proving a sub-par FPU. Pentium 4 gets slightly beaten by Athlon in the 3D game MDK2. Pentium 4 is badly losing out against Pentium 3 as well as Athlon in clock-for-clock comparisons. Pentium 4 is currently the most expensive x86-system solution available. BUT Pentium 4 is really good at Quake 3 Arena! Honestly! tomshardware.com The really ironic thing is, as near as I can figure, the one thing the P4 has that is really good is the memory system, much maligned DRDRAM and all. That Dewdney guy from ZD-UK had it exactly backwards. Strange days. Cheers, Dan.