Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 13:16:00 07/08/03
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On July 08, 2003 at 15:37:39, Russell Reagan wrote: >On July 08, 2003 at 15:18:55, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>http://www.amdzone.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1304 >> >>looks like a tie with the pentium 3.2: hardly a pentium killer! my heart bleeds >>for the poor opteron when intel releases a prescott! > >Please post the link to the page where the have the results of the chess program >benchmarking that they did. they didn't: and i am talking of the chip's overall performance as most end-users dont buy a chip for its chess performance only: (even on this forum of die-hard computer chess fanatics its quite probable that there are more intel based systems being used) if this so-called pentium killer does not measure up (and i have a horrible feeling it won't), it will be the end of AMD as we know it; for the last 2 yrs they have been telling us: "never mind the athlon; it is only stop gap; wait for the hammer; it is going to smash intel;" and finally after endless delays it does show up it appears to be almost geting a smashing itself! if AMD disappears, we will then be subject to intel's monopoly which will be a horrible thing for us all: hence my disappointment with AMD: always too little and too late!
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