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Subject: Re: When you wake up, can you compare your Dual AMD 2100 ?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 16:24:14 05/27/02

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On May 27, 2002 at 10:42:31, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On May 27, 2002 at 10:30:15, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On May 27, 2002 at 09:46:12, Slater Wold wrote:
>>
>>>Come on man.  This was MY comparison, and for sure, the last comparison I ever
>>>do for CCC.
>>>
>>>1.) I wasn't comparing money.  Who cares about money.  If I wanted to compare
>>>money, would I have bothered actually BUYING the equipment?  Of course not!  I
>>>would have just made a list of what costs how much, and that would have been it.
>>> MY test was to see which CPU was faster.
>>>
>>>2.) I did everything I could to make sure this test was as "equal" as possible.
>>>I used the same exact programs, I used the same exact drivers, hell, I even used
>>>the same video card in some tests.  But that's not good enough.  I didn't use
>>>the correct EXE, or I didn't use the right BIOS settings.
>>>
>>>I am sitting here, in front of an AMD 1.73Ghz, beside me, an Intel P4 2.53Ghz.
>>>I have run application after application, and I am here to tell you, that P4 is
>>>faster.  PERIOD.
>>>
>>>Send me the EXEs, settings, driver, whatever you'd like.  But I am telling you,
>>>I've been up for 23 hours now, doing this shit.  I've seen it all with my own 2
>>>eyes.  When you have a P4 sitting next to you, then come talk to me.
>>>
>>>
>>>Good nite.
>>
>>
>>Be careful NOT to go into hibernation like a bear, because when you wake up you
>>will find out that my new AMD Opteron will beat your P IV 2.53 Ghz in every
>>tests.
>>
>>PS: Last nite I had a dream that I went to hibernation and woke up 6 months
>>later testing my new AMD Opteron.
>>
>>Jorge.
>
>You missed some posts.  ;)
>
>I already own a Dual AMD 2100+. 1GB memory, and all the trimmings.  And it is
>*very* fast.
>
>Can you compare your Dual AMD XP 2100+ to your P IV 2.53 GHz, and isn't your AMD
>Dual 2100+ cheaper than your new Pentium IV 2.53 Ghz?

Yes, of course it's a lot faster.

And no, it was not cheaper.  Actually, about $200 more.



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