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Subject: Re: P4 vs Athlon

Author: Sonja Tiede

Date: 12:06:52 09/30/01

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On September 30, 2001 at 14:51:58, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>On September 30, 2001 at 12:40:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>It is well known that in chess a 1,4 GHz Athlon is much faster than a P4/2 GHz.
>>Regards
>>Kurt
>
>hi all: one very significant point which seems to have struck me(and which i
>dont think many people have commented upon) is the fact that the pentium 4 seems
>to scale (performance wise) much better than an athlon-for each speed grade
>increase.

wrong! , since the memory clock speed is not going to be improved while
speed-upgrading the cpu, and the size of the l1/l2 cache remains on the same
size.



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