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Subject: Re: Athlon 64 or Intel P4 3.2 EE: which ?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 17:59:42 12/09/03

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On December 09, 2003 at 11:28:45, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On December 08, 2003 at 21:08:14, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>2 things...
>>
>>tabsnet has *no* itanium results.  They don't even have a category for it.
>>
>>I have been told that the results from 'Slowpoke' have been verified.  And was
>>verified back in March when he originally posted them (because that smoked
>>everyone back then).  And since you couldn't see it, I'll spoil it for you, the
>>I2 1.0Ghz did the bench in 11:07.
>
>Thats nice but... what exactly is Leen Ammeraal going to do with an Itanium 2?
>He specifically asked about the FX and P4-3.2EE. I'm pretty sure he is going to
>want to stick to x86 chips. Sure, the I2 can emulate IA-32 and it does emulate
>it better than the old I1.. but it is still slow at IA-32 stuff.

I was responding to you.  Not Leen.

I doubt Leen would like to spend $1,500 for a CPU that sucks in IA-32.  :)

Buy two 246's instead.  :)



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