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To: Dan3 who wrote (144482)	9/30/2001 4:08:19 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dan, thanks for the link. Here is a pretty interesting quote. Here is the list of systems with more or less similar performance according to SYSmark 2001 (regarded as a composite example of an office application): Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz in a i845 based system with PC133 SDRAM; Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz in a VIA P4X266 based system with PC2100 DDR SDRAM; Intel Pentium 4 1.5GHz in a i850 based system with PC800 RDRAM; AMD Athlon 1.2GHz in a AMD 760 based system with PC2100 DDR SDRAM. Price comparisons between these systems are also closer than I've ever seen them before. Granted, this is hardly enough to impress the author of this article, but it does show how far the Pentium 4 has come in one year. It used to be that a Pentium 4 CPU with motherboard and memory cost 2-3x what a comparable Athlon + motherboard and memory cost. Now that margin has shrunk to 20-50%. It looks like AMD's massive price/performance advantage is dwindling, in at least some respects. wanna_bmw