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To: fyodor_ who wrote (57205)	10/4/2001 5:55:24 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

fyo, since the 1.4GHz Tbird matches the (inexistant) 1.6GHz P4 1.6 GHz P4 does exist. There are 8 speed grades of P4 starting from 1.3 all the way to 2.0 GHz, with 100 MHz increment. Joe

To: fyodor_ who wrote (57205)	10/4/2001 6:02:11 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Fyo, <Why are you so certain that AMD's rating scheme is "arbitrary"? They haven't announced any details so far and while it may wind up being (seemingly) arbitrary, it might not.> Oh it's arbitrary all right. Let's assume the "quantispeed" rating is based off of Pentium 4 running SPEC2000. In a few short months, Intel will be releasing Northwood, an 0.13u version of Pentium 4 with double the cache. No doubt Northwood will be faster clock-for-clock than the current Pentium 4. What is AMD going to do then? Adjust their formula for future processors? Retroactively change the "quantispeed" ratings for existing products? Or look on AMD's side. What if the nForce chipset improves the per-clock performance of Palomino over the AMD 760 or VIA KT266A chipsets? Once again, will AMD then retroactively increase the "quantispeed" rating for their existing products? <the point is, we just don't know yet and I think it's too early to condemn it.> More like it's too EASY to condemn it. Tenchusatsu