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To: Elmer who wrote (142729)	9/4/2001 7:31:17 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"new code" being some bogus benchmark Intel cooked up to make it look like they didn't double the die size for no visible purpose? Like captive "independent benchmark organization" Bapco, whose colocation on Intel grounds is purely coincidental, running some dumb SSE optimized MP3 encoder in the background? A very realistic scenario, that one. In case you haven't noticed, Elmer, the PC world doesn't exactly revolve around "new code", or it never would have standardized on the silly x86 instruction set in the first place.

To: Elmer who wrote (142729)	9/4/2001 7:33:06 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Show us a benchmark where Athlon beats P4 on new code. Isn't much newer than linux: anandtech.com P4 is total fraud, and so are Intel's crooked benchmarks. Example - Athlon is faster than P4 in most Photoshop operations but Bapco (the bribe-me-please company) focuses on one rarely used operation P4 does well on to make up a major part of its benchmarks.