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Subject: Re: Intel releases a new chip (Gateway for only $3000 !

Author: Jorge Pichard

Date: 10:09:18 05/06/02

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On May 06, 2002 at 12:59:10, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On May 06, 2002 at 12:53:12, Keith Ian Price wrote:
>
>>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
>>>
>>>rajen
>>
>>That was me. My 2.2 Ghz P4 is also used for rendering video, a task at which it
>>blows the doors off any AMD processor so far, which is why I got it, rather than
>>an AMD. The 2 ELO increase I could expect from the AMD 2100+ system over mine
>>wasn't enough of an incentive to render video at 75% of the speed. That and the
>>fact that a similarly equipped AMD system from HP or Compaq would have cost 50%
>>more. 60% if I tried to put one together myself at the time. Gateway is giving
>>away their high-end models to try and raise market share, so I was happy to
>>help.
>
>
>
>Interesting!  Is there one Gateway model you think is particularly well-priced
>right now?

http://www.gateway.com/home/deals/offers/700xl.shtml



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