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To: Tony Viola who wrote (124630)1/10/2001 11:55:00 PM
From: Dan3  Respond to of 186894
 
Re: do you really need a super ....

There is a lot going on in a modern PC, more than you may know. If you have Win2K, right click on the task bar at the bottom of your screen, select task manager, and look at processes.

You probably have 15 or 20 programs running, even when you know of only one. Your "active" application is giving up control of the CPU almost continuously - with home networks, or at least a dial up modem, your PC is constantly checking for and responding to outside interruptions. And processing some of those interrupts can take a lot of time, and they may be almost continuous. The Athlon, with its moderate length pipeline and low latency memory system is particularly good at switching back and forth between those many applications so that as you scroll through your document or update your spreadsheet you don't have to wait while the processor reloads the state it saved when it responded to a call from your modem or network.

There are few things more annoying than a program action that randomly stops and restarts during what should be a continuous operation.

Dan



To: Tony Viola who wrote (124630)1/11/2001 12:05:29 AM
From: Cirruslvr  Respond to of 186894
 
Tony - RE: "The P4 exceeds at apps that actually benefit from very high clock speeds. Thanks for the plug!"

The ironic thing is that the P4 generally exceeds in these apps because of Intel's decision to use two channels of (the now hated) Rambus RDRAM. If Intel had chosed DDR SDRAM for the initial P4, it would more than likely have been slower the Athlon in most everything rather than the current almost everything. Quite a catch-22 that Rambus RDRAM is, eh? ;)


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