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To: Petz who wrote (59150)	10/18/2001 2:33:07 PM
From: jcholewa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

> JC, there are VERY FEW i845 reviews on the web, WHY IS > THAT? Shouldn't Anand and Tom have had a big i845 > motherboard comparison out by now? In fact there are more > review of VIA and SiS DDR P4 boards than any 845's. Has > Intel forbidden any comparisons? I think that a more logical and less paranoid conclusion would be that the i845, being a sucky chipset, simply isn't "sexy" enough to warrant being in a review.     -JC

To: Petz who wrote (59150)	10/18/2001 6:41:10 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Petz, I found a review that might satisfy your curiosity. ww.xbitlabs.com In the most unfavorable case, CC Winstone 2001, the 1.5GHz Pentium 4 with SDRAM was outperformed by the Celeron 1.1GHz and 1GHz Duron. The Pentium 4 did, however, beat the 1GHz Celeron and 950MHz Duron. In the most favorable case, CC SysMark 2001 (without the AMD patch, I'm guessing), the 1.5GHz Pentium 4 with SDRAM blew passed even the 1GHz Pentium III by more than 25%, and passed the 1.1GHz Celeron by more than 50%. On average, the Pentium 4 with SDRAM outperformed the fastest Celerons by a wide margin on most tests. In many tests, it outperformed the fastest Durons by a decent margin. On a few Intel favorable tests, such as FlasK, Winzip, and Quake III, it outperformed the entire lineup, which included 1GHz Athlon and Pentium III CPUs. This is the slowest Pentium 4 available with SDRAM against the fastest Durons, the fastest Coppermine Celerons, and the few remaining low end Pentium III and Athlon chips, and it does respectfully. Although many of the benchmarks favor Intel CPUs, there are more than a few that even the critics call fair, and the Pentium 4 is far from a dog. That's just MHO, though. wanna_bmw