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To: Scumbria who wrote (131294)	3/30/2001 8:40:22 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Thunderbird test at Chip-Online; It was stable through all benchmarks, used only air cooling, and they ran it at 1.6GHZ for the tests. This is AMD's old core, on .18, without benefit of SOI. chip-online.com Conclusion: The CHIP Online testcenter at CeBIT managed to jack up the 1.333MHz Thunderbird to 1.600 MHz - without any fancy cooling measures. With these settings, AMD's lead increased even more in contrast to the fastest current Intel CPU, the Pentium 4 with 1,500 MHz. The benchmark results further prove that the Athlon with 1,200 MHz can also keep the P4 in its place. That is probably part of the reason why AMD was hesitant to launch the new version with 1,333 MHz. The new Athlon CPU is forcing Intel to catch up. Looks like Intel has its work cut our for itself - as we're writing this article in out Cebit test lab, Intel is demo-ing an air-cooled Pentium 4 in their booth, running at 2,000 Mhz (!) - but unfortunately not available for benchmarks. Too bad. At least it seems as if we can soon compare Athlon and Pentium 4 on a per-MHz-basis again; Palomino will make sure of that.

To: Scumbria who wrote (131294)	3/30/2001 9:06:43 AM
From: willcousa	Respond to of 186894

As usual your "facts" are an oversimplification. Your theory would have it that the economy fell off the table. Mine is that it has been falling for some time. Something is missing in our economic analysis that would give us better visibility. High real interest rates and high taxes are a drag on the economy. When the drag achieved maximum impact is not known. The saddest thing is that with less federal bureaucracy there would actually be more money available to the states to minister to those in need.