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Subject: Re: So is the 10Ghz AMD

Author: Adam Oellermann

Date: 09:34:50 09/04/01

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On September 04, 2001 at 12:31:45, Adam Oellermann wrote:

>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

Sorry, my mistake. It was actually the 1.4GHz processor that benched slightly
ahead of the P4 in the Unreal Tournament tests.





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