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To: eracer who wrote (195049)	4/25/2006 10:25:01 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Eracer: One major problem with most of those benchmarks is how Conroe performs when the working set is much larger than 4MB. In the very small sample of benchmarks that measured such things, Conroe was slower than an equivalently clocked A64 X2. This does not bode well for either Conroe or especially, Woodcrest. One of the major selling points for DCs are that they do well in multitasking environments. If all you do is test one or two small working set benchmarks, that does not compare well with the typical power user who has many such tasks with a much larger working set size. As many studies have shown, great benchmarkers that don't do well with typical workloads, leave the users feeling cheated. Their supposed high power computer is slower than what they thought it would do based on those so called "standard" benchmarks. And Woodcrest better do well because the server purchasers do test with the intended workload. And if it doesn't bear up, it will be put in the underperforms group not to be trusted in the future. This hit Itanium (along with its many other faults) quite hard. BTW, class action lawsuits are a typical result. It will add on top of those already present against Intel and add fuel to them as well. Pete