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To: Tony Viola who wrote (59225)	10/18/2001 9:30:29 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Tony OTOH once it's started to fall apart for IBM.... Regards -Albert

To: Tony Viola who wrote (59225)	10/19/2001 2:54:47 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Athlon TBird 1.2 faster than 2GHz/SDRAM combo in 12/15 benchmarks (not tested in the other 3!): lostcircuits.com The point of this article is to compare the i845 to the i850, so there are no AMD scores in some cases Stream benchmarks (5): VIA KT266A chipset with Tbird 1.2 GHz beats i845 chipset with 2GHz P4 in all 5 margin is 25% to 70% Sandra ALU: TBird 1.2 with KT266A chipset beats P4 2GHz with i845 by 115% Sandra FPU: TBird 1.2 with KT266A chipset beats P4 2GHz with i845 by 78% Expendable Timedemo: TBird 1.2/KT266A beats P4 2 GHz/i845 by 34% Aquamark - not tested on AMD boards, but i845 is equal to i850 because of graphics card limitations Quake 3 Arena 800x600x32: TBird 1.2/KT266A beats P4 2 GHz/i845 by 6% Quake 3 Arena 640x480x16: Same, margin increases to 8% Quake 3 Area (lower resolutions): Same, margin is 5-7% Caligari Truespace: Dual 1.2 Palomino beats 2 GHz P4/i845 by 15-55%, no TBird or single Palomino tests ULead MediaStudioPRO 6.0: TBird 1.2/KT266A beats P4 2 GHz/i845 by 3% Petz