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To: Ali Chen who wrote (35017)	7/23/1998 3:12:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1573123

<hit a nail with a Xeon brick> Touche', Ali, wonder how long it took Elmer to find that benchmark?

To: Ali Chen who wrote (35017)	7/23/1998 10:01:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573123

Re: "Your mistake is that are using an inappropriate example." Fact is Ali that SPECfp95 is an industry standard Floating Point benchmark. The whole industry takes it seriously. Going from 66 to 100mhz bus makes a real difference here. There are power users out there who can take advantage of the boost. I agree with you that for many applications, the improvement is minimal, but I have made my point that the 100mhz bus can offer some users far more than a 1-2% improvement in performance. Re: "Actually, why don't you pick SPECint? Winstone98? BAPCO sysmark?" Because SPECfp95 is a highend benchmark and that's where the 100mhz bus comes into play. I didn't want to pick a lowend Mutant Alien Blaster (tm EPHUD '98) type of benchmark so I went highend. EP