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To: pgerassi who wrote (133659)	4/29/2001 11:35:08 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

The proof is in the benchmarks and what Intel has done so far. They can't make it run with current software fast. They can't make it without massive bandwidth. They can't make it with current chipsets. If the Athlon did not exist, it would have slipped until they could make it work by trying different things until it did work. But competition forced them to make do and release what they had. Waiting is a luxury they can no longer afford Dear Pete, you are certainly free to ramble or should I say speculate in any way you wish, but don't expect people to see it as anything other than that. As for Scumbria, I think his experience when interviewing for a job at Intel summed it up perfectly. He has expertise but they were not willing to offer him a position at the skill level he thought he deserved. No doubt he was grilled by real experts, and a group of them. It is my opinion that Scumbria is not on the level he thinks he's on. People that unstable have a host of problems. Delusions of grandeur is probably one of them. I for one am glad Intel is not wasting shareholders money. I can cut through the FUD that tries to claim something that is not true (such as "performance leaps forward when, you run P4 with RDRAM past 2GHz" being pure baloney as FSB bottlenecks become larger (more problematic) with higher multipliers, not less). That might be true except the current version of P4 will probably top out at 2GHz, so which P4 was he talking about? How do you know what the next version will be? Do you know how a much larger cache and SMT might affect the equation? Will the buss speed remain the same? For a guy who claims to know so much you seem to be missing a lot of information. If you are so worried about out typing your word processor, then you should get an Athlon based system and type as fast as you want. EP