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Subject: Re: So is the 10Ghz AMD

Author: Adam Oellermann

Date: 09:31:45 09/04/01

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On September 03, 2001 at 19:29:03, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On September 03, 2001 at 19:23:45, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>You can't even do math right dude!
>
>Here's what you said, and what's on Ace's Hardware:
>
>>106k nps at the dual Xeon 1.7Ghz
>>120k nps at the dual AMD 1.2 MP
>
>(106 / 1.7) * 2 = 12, 125 > 120
>
>Where exactly did I screw up the math?
>
>And how are these numbers supposed to prove that the K7/1.2 is faster than the
>P4/2.0 anyway?
>
>Personally, I'd rather trust benchmarks that people besides you use (i.e., not
>Diep) that involve the actual chips in question. The Tom's Hardware article does
>exactly that. And the K7 didn't win a single one of those tests.
>
>-Tom

Actually, it did win one or two by very tiny margins, but they were trivial
benchmarks anyway in my view.

- Adam



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