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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (52579)	8/27/2001 11:44:51 AM
From: eCo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

w:You do realize that such a comment comes across as severely sour grapes. Whether it's 600MHz ahead or 10GHz ahead, the Pentium 4 is faster, plain and simple. The comment was simply to provide balance. Your gloating was unwarranted for such a paltry win after several straight quarters of being behind in most benchmarks. If previous trends are indicative, we'll see this release answered with a faster performing AMD part. This should happen before the 2GHz P4 is out in volume, that is, if the 2GHz part is ever out in volume. I have to wonder how many 2 GHz parts will be pulled because of the throttling issue. eCo

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (52579)	8/27/2001 5:54:39 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Wanna: the Pentium 4 is faster, plain and simple. At oscillating, yes. At executing code, no. (Well, overall - even taking "new", optimized benchmarks into consideration - a 1.8GHz P4 seems pretty much equal to a 1.4GHz Athlon in performance, with the P4 taking a serious lumping in DP FP, such as all CAD/CAM programs, and database performance, and the Athlon taking similar lumpings in a few games and, more interestingly, optimized multimedia encoding / decoding. Of course, this also implies that a 2.0GHz P4 must generally be considered faster than a 1.4GHz Athlon). EDIT: By "optimized multimedia&#133" in the above, I don't mean SSE2 optimized, but rather just plain "well-written, decently compiled" code (i.e. not the original version of Flask). -fyo