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To: Elmer Phud who wrote (219168)	12/6/2006 7:24:06 AM
From: Rink	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Elmer, I used to work for a large US company selling very large decision enabling type of databases (hw+sw) among other things. I know the customers a few years back looked at Spec_Int_Rate and Spec_FP_Rate more than Spec_Int and Spec_FP. In that company I was told the 'rate' benches provided a closer to reality view than the non rate ones. Also that this was reasonably generally applicable to the workload of a heck of large systems. I'm just verifying that view. I think it's still applicable because I still don't have any real counter arguments. If what I remembered I heard is correct your argument about Intel possibly having a significantly better Spec_FP might not be that valuable. Regards, Rink