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

Author: Ed Panek

Date: 10:42:29 05/06/02

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On May 06, 2002 at 12:21:31, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>On May 06, 2002 at 11:22:42, Sune Fischer 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
>>
>>I fear it is too late and too little, AMD is about to release their
>>Thoroughbred!
>>
>>-S.
>
>unfortunately intel is going great guns right now. they have a P4 2.67 ready for
>when(if?) the Thoroughbred launches. As far as i know the thoroughbred was
>supposed to be launches in march 2002
>
>rajen

When is the Itanium coming to the dance?


Ed



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