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To: jcholewa who wrote (30312)	3/5/2001 10:02:14 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"Why are they comparing the prices of two disparately performing processors? " Has anyone bothered to benchmark a 1.3GHz P4 versus a 1.2GHz Athlon with PC2100 DDR? TO say that the two are comparable...

To: jcholewa who wrote (30312)	3/5/2001 2:00:56 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

JC, Re: Why are they comparing the prices of two disparately performing processors? Probably because someone at Tom's Hardware Germany ran amok. <g> Too bad that the article is only in German (so far) -- it's a very entertaining read. And I thought Van Smith was biased... Andreas

To: jcholewa who wrote (30312)	3/5/2001 2:04:20 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

JC, AMD needs a PR rating on their Athlon processors. They are throwing money down the toilet by letting Intel play the low IPC MHz game. Scumbria