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To: Joe NYC who wrote (169986)	8/25/2002 3:54:01 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 186894

Joe, Re: "Then, you must have missed this one: Message 17915054 Apparently, Intel fixed something in the P4 FPU, or that's what people speculate." Tsk, tsk. You know I don't read that thread any more. <g> Other than some pre-results on a Japanese web page on some benchmarks that I don't even care about, those guys seem to be going out on a limb to make that conclusion. I don't give any credibility to these kinds of rumors - you know that. Of course, I'd love to be wrong in this case. ;-) We'll see what the reviews say tomorrow night. wbmw

To: Joe NYC who wrote (169986)	8/25/2002 12:36:25 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Apparently, Intel fixed something in the P4 FPU, or that's what people speculate Turned out it was easier to fix the benchmarks, than fix the product. Maybe Intel should shift some of their resources from cheating on performance tests to designing decent products that don't need to rely on faked benchmarks.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (169986)	8/25/2002 1:35:53 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Apparently, Intel fixed something in the P4 FPU, or that's what people speculate. Thanks for the link Joe, I hadn't seen that before. If this is true, then it won't be limited to the 2.8GHz part. The new stepping will eventually make it's way across the entire NorthWood product line as the old stepping(s) get flushed out. Remembering back to AMD's claims that Hammer would be the fastest processor in the world upon introduction (and still to this day refusing to answer the question "fastest at what?"), we have to wonder just what AMD thought they'd be competing against, and when that comparison was intended to be made. There was no NorthWood and it's 512K L2 cache. No 533MHz FSB. No hyperthreading. No 1066MHz RDRAM and no design tweaks like the one just described.