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Subject: Re: Intel releases a new chip and Bus speed ...whoopie

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 08:22:42 05/06/02

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On May 06, 2002 at 11:05:38, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>On May 06, 2002 at 10:45:21, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>Good for them. But with the current speed of Athlon XP we will have to see a
>>2.9GHz P4 before even considering a switch for chess programs and FEA.
>>
>>MvH Dan Andersson
>
>i doubt it. someone here had posted the tiger and fritz mark on a pentium 4
>northwood, about 10 days back(i forget the name of the poster, perhaps if he
>reads this he can respond)and it was identical to the benchmarks which others
>had posted of an athlon xp at 1600MHZ. This means that a pentium4 2.4 would
>atleast run as fast as athlon xp 1.73(the fastest currently available) and a
>pentium 2.53 would woud run somewhere between an athlonxp 1.83-1.87 9probably
>the latter in view of a faster FSB, faster memory and the superior scaling of a
>P4 at higher speeds as compared to an athlon xp.
>
>I greatly fear that amd have taken their eye of the ball and will forever be
>playing catchup, one lap behind

I fear it is too late and too little, AMD is about to release their
Thoroughbred!

-S.



>rajen



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