Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 13:43:18 07/08/03
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On July 08, 2003 at 16:34:55, Aaron Gordon wrote: >On July 08, 2003 at 16:16:00, Rajen Gupta wrote: > >>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! > >Once stuff gets optimized for the Opteron it'll be much faster, they've got a >compiler in the works that increases performance quite a bit. Its foolish to >base the performance of the chip off unoptimized applications. The P4 needs >optimizations as well, otherwise it gets smoked by the Athlon in everything. >Also, AMD does have a good selling point no matter what.. "64bit". Most people >that walk into a store and ask a sales clerk will be like, "Whats the best thing >to get?".. They'll respond, "This one has a 64bit cpu!!" or something similar. >:) i sincerely hope it does happen. i have avoided upgrading so far because of the long awaited opteron: the whole of last year was a waste because AMD kept increasing the PR+ numbers while actually decreasing the speed of the CPU! to give the devil his due, intel on the other hand incresed FSB; level 2 cache as well as speed! btw aaron: i hope u find a way to overclock the opterons! i will be your first customer!
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