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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (73373)	5/21/2001 8:25:02 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

How odd that you would home in on an Intel-cooked benchmark there, JD. You do know Bapco's mailing address, don't you? More interesting and relevant to this thread are the lumpy gravy curves in anandtech.com , showing the "superior" Rambus memory bandwidth.

To: Jdaasoc who wrote (73373)	5/21/2001 8:32:54 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 93625

John, "Does the Xeon P4 @ 1.7 GHz with RDRAM smoke AMD Athlon or what." The 1.7GHz Xeon has some edge on a 1.2GHz Athlon on a benchmark that was created specifically to show off the P4/RDRAM combination, by stretching the definitions of "real world": "To simulate real-world performance, SYSmark 2001 throws PCs all kinds of curves--running multiple applications simultaneously, ... performing background tasks such as file compression, virus scanning, speech-to-text translation, and video encoding." zdnet.com - Ali P.S. I don't think it is a good idea to promote illegal activities like "video encoding". Encoding of what video?