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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (57813)	10/9/2001 7:17:06 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Most losses are small with the exception of a windows media players that is highly optimised for the P-4. "SysMark 2001 Handicaps Athlon XP As shipped and even with the latest patch (patch 3), SysMark 2001 severely handicaps the Athlon XP. Although the benchmark states that it supports Windows Media Encoder 7 and higher, in fact the program ships with a static version of WME that does not recognize SIMD enhancements native to the Athlon XP. Fortunately, AMD and Microsoft have worked closely together to provide a patch to perform an end run around this slighting. Although Windows Media Encoder is a relatively small component of SysMark2001, simply with this one small change, the Athlon XP's performance shoots upwards on this test as shown below. vanshardware.com