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Subject: Re: So is the 10Ghz AMD

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 22:08:26 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?


Before any wiseguy tries to give TK a bad time about his math, I just want to
point out that the 12 is an obvious typo and that 125 was intended there.


>
>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



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