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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (73144)	3/4/2002 3:20:23 AM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

BMW Re..of course it's going to sound great, because it's all they have, and it's better than comparing Pentium 4 megahertz to Athlon XP megahertz.<<<<< If that was all AMD had, then Quantispeed would have been a flop. The simple fact that every reviewer on the net, and in the magazines and other rating agencies concurred that the XP2000 did indeed perform on a par with the 2.0 ghz NW had everything to do with its success. <<<<<By all accounts, I agree with everyone here about megahertz being a poor measurement of performance across CPU lines<<<<<<<< The message I am getting here is that while you agree mhz is a poor measurement, you also dislike every other measurement. Aren't you sounding like Daschle the other day when he said that while he liked the way GW was handling the war in Afghanistan so far, he could do better. Sure he could. I understand your basic premise, that mhz itself doesn't guaranatee a specific performance; and that Quantispeed just is a ratio, rather than a performance metric. However, so far, mhz has been the performance metric for Intels x86 processors; Quantispeed is now AMD's metric. TPI or another metric could be a good combined total unit metric, if the industry can ever get behind it. If you want change, quit being a Daschle type obstructionist. Quantify your metric, and maybe the board, and maybe even the industry can get behind it. That would be constructive.