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To: fingolfen who wrote (141746)	8/16/2001 12:51:52 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: If you HONESTLY believe that, I... We brought in a 1.7GHZ P4 for testing (since some people are buying them and we have to support them). We need to be able to help users through workarounds for the P4 bugs like the "Oracle client won't install" issue. (Which is actually the only persistent issue we've had with P4 - there are no issues with the Athlons). So we pretty routinely run various software on similar 1.3GHZ Athlons and 1.7GHZ P4s for final pre-delivery tests. Our 1.3GHZ Athlons generally run the same speed as the 1.7GHZ P4, each processor has its favorite code, but these two chips overall, in our experience, offer the same performance. Athlon 4 tests out up to 80% faster in IPC than Athlon depending on the software used, but a very fair estimate for overall performance is 10%, which would put a 1.3GHZ Athlon 4 equal to a 1.87GHZ P4. If you honestly believe anything different, go run your own tests.