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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ericneu who wrote (39808)	10/21/1998 8:42:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576891

One more "consultant" from Oregon on our heads...<Any benchmark not based on real-world application use isn't worth the trouble it takes to refer to it.> I am afraid you are sadly mistaken, Mr. Eric. There is a CPU design, and there is a system design. They are interlocked but still separable. A synthetic benchmark shows a potential of a processor. A real-world benchmark runs on a system. You may be a little bit less sloppy than Intel and design a north bridge for a system with, say, 4X-inteleaved DIMMS, with 3-clock latency, and front-end non-blocking L2 cache. Guess which processor will run your "real" applications faster on that system - the one which posted higher Norton scores, or the lower one? P.S. No need to answer. Thanks. Kisses to Oregon.