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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (150484)	11/30/2001 12:22:33 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

No Constantine, Kap was not "onto" anything. He wrote a piece of code specifically designed to be a very bad performer on a Pentium 4, and he said it was to test whether the instruction decoders ran at half speed or not. First, if the application runs slower, there are a lot of other considerations besides the clock frequency of the decoder, and this has been brought up in previous posts. I suggest you go back and catch the points of some others that have responded that don't have as much of a stake in Intel's demise. You may not get a perfectly unbiased point of view, but many of the people that have responded to this discussion rarely post on this thread, and have no reputation for being an over-zealous cheerleader. What your problem is, and I believe I've addressed this to you before, is that you are likely to give the Pentium 4 a bad rap based on software that only your business uses. You have some excuse about how you think that your software corresponds with software that most of the world's businesses use, but nobody here is buying it. Look at any of the tests and benchmarks that are spread over the web, which include dozens of different varieties and code patterns. One thing that has become quite clear is that the Pentium 4 is quite capable of competing, and despite having less IPC than the Pentium III, it has outperformed Intel's previous line by large margins on many tests. Go back and review it again if you haven't for a while. There must have been 30-40 different 2.0GHz Pentium 4 reviews, and many included Pentium III chips. In all the tests that were done, even Tualatin barely comes close to outperforming Pentium 4. Your small minority of tests doesn't mean or prove anything. You and Kap can agree on anything you want, but it won't change the facts. wbmw P.S. take a look at the review Paul Engle just posted (it's a 2.0GHz Pentium 4 with SDRAM - and it beats a 1.2GHz Tualatin in everything!). hwextreme.com