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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (145144)	10/12/2001 1:21:05 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE:"For the most part, benchmark testers who've been running the chip applauded the Athlon XP, although an absolute winner is tough to declare. Some testers said the Athlon XP outperformed the 2GHz Pentium 4. " That guy must be smokin' somethin'. the XP-1800+ blew the P4-2.0 Ghz away. The real joke was Bapco(iNTEL) Sysmark 2001...which continually runs Windows Media Encoder in the background. Just so happens that WME only reconinized "GenuineIntel"...and because of that wasn't using SSE on any other chip. When the patch was applied...the XP took that benchmark too... The P4 does win a memory bandwidth bench or too...but alone, that doesn't mean anything... In Quake 3, which is the P4s forte...the XP has made up a lot of ground... anandtech.com Jim

To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (145144)	10/12/2001 11:31:22 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Duke, Re: "Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday unveiled its new Athlon XP processor for PCs. With the announcement, the chipmaker said that its Athlon XP 1800+ chip outperforms Intel's 2GHz Pentium 4 chip, even though the XP 1800+ runs at 1.53GHz." I can see the marketing message now. "Buy our new Athlon XP system which is not related to Windows XP, but works great with Windows XP and runs at 1.53GHz, but performs like 2.0GHz, but we're calling it 1800+." Not confusing at all, is it. <ggg> wanna_bmw