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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (57149)	10/4/2001 10:36:32 AM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Uh huh. So Intel gets to arbitrarily inflate mhz as a measure, in the Piii-P4 transition, and you don't understand it, but it's cool, because the marchitecture guys are pumping out all this NetB*s about "more power". But any attempt to actually measure performance in a realistic way is out of bounds. You ought to look up Via's cpus some time. They seem to be playing the mhz game well in the Intel style, but at least they don't have the nerve to expect people to pay $600 a piece for their version of mhz inflation. Via could never match the NetB*s effort, either. Only one company in the business is capable of that level of fog.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (57149)	10/4/2001 10:52:55 AM
From: Charles Gryba	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Mary, horsepower is a completely different measurement from Mhz. A more appropriate comparison would be revolutions per minute ( RPM ) and capacity ( cubic centimeters ). Just as you do in cpus, you can have engines that look great in those two measurements and suck in real HP/Torque. For example, the Lincoln LS has a 4 liter V8 which makes 250 Hp and the honda s2000 make 240 hp from 2 liters of displacement. The LS makes that HP in the 5K-6K RPM Range, the S2000 does it at 9K+ range. Which one would you pick? p.s. HP is more like IPC*Frequency Constantine