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To: Road Walker who wrote (169927)	8/24/2002 9:47:20 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: absolute, certain next step would be a similar suit against AMD No, it wouldn't. AMD never committed any fraudulent acts. They've presented well documented benchmarks with detailed support data, and, most important, they've presented those test results as coming from AMD, not "A non-profit consortium". Check out BAPCO's fraudulent faq, here: bapco.com And look at what they've been up to: . In the 2001 version of the BAPCo/Intel product, 13 different filters were used. On eight of these 13 filters the Athlon XP 2000+ beat the 2GHz Northwood P4. However, in SysMark 2002 every single one of these eight filters where removed -- again, tasks where the Athlon XP beat the Pentium 4 -- and were replaced with repeated filters that the Pentium 4 executed faster than the Athlon XP.... Another indefensible example of biasing SysMark 2002 involved the "Flash" tests. Originally, 211 of the 241 Flash tasks were "Step Frame" in SysMark 2001. The Athlon XP, which was introduced after SysMark 2001 was released, excels at "Step Frame" operations. Remarkably, in SysMark 2002 there are now zero "Step Frame" Flash tasks. That's right, 88% of the original Flash test tasks -- again, operations that the Athlon XP performed well -- was completely yanked out of SysMark 2002. Additionally, the Flash test file exploded in size from 118kB to 2.662MB thus stressing bandwidth and biasing this task by consuming much more time..... In Access, the Athlon XP beat the Pentium 4 almost everywhere in SysMark 2001 (on our front page yesterday, we published results where a modest 1GHz VIA C3 trounced a 1.7GHz P4-Celeron in another database test -- "NetBurst" is "NetBust" when it comes to databases). For the 2002 version of the BAPCo/Intel benchmark suite, the Access test was almost completely removed! vanshardware.com If you can't see how utterly indefensible Intel's actions have been, you're not being rational. And I mean indefensible in both a "what's going to be happening in court, soon" and a "would I ever want to buy anything from these people" sense.