Author: Joe McCarro
Date: 10:07:43 05/29/02
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Personally I hate it when people who do testing try to include the "value" of the products they are testing. Fact is $1000 difference means more to some people than others, but we all know how much the difference means to *us* better than some guy testing hardware. People who test hardware should, like Slater, stick to evaluting the pluses and minuses of the hardware but don't try to tell me how I should evaluate a $1000 difference. It just muddles the test. On May 27, 2002 at 09:59:54, Ed Panek wrote: >On May 27, 2002 at 05:39:40, Slater Wold wrote: > (deleted) >>Conclusion: >> >>This test wasn't based on price, or value, or anything like that. So please >>don't post anything about "value". It's not worth much to me. (As anyone who >>knows me will tell you.) This was about one thing, and one thing alone: >>matching Intels top CPU to AMDs top CPU. Sorry to say, but Intel won EACH and >>EVERY test I ran. >> >>However, to most people, the 10% gain, just isn't enough to warrant $1k. I >>completly agree. I would *never* recommend the P4 over the AMD. Because, come >>on, who wants to spend $1k more for 10%!? > > Why do comments about "value" threaten this post so much? Does it interefere >with the agenda of the post and detract? > > OTOH, if the tests you have run are correct it would appear that the P4 is >faster for chess than the Athlon at the moment. I have no problem with that. > Also since value is not worth anything to you, would you please also test a >similar 8 way box being used for the Kramnik Bahrain game? > > >Ed > >> >>And before you start telling me that you can overclock, take a look at Aarons >>website. He has screenshots of a 1.812Mhz AMD, and it's only faster in _1_ >>benchmark (the arthmetic benchmark). >> >>AMD 1.812Ghz vs Intel 2.53Ghz: >> >>AMD >> >>4977 MIPS \ >>2493 MFLOPS / Arthmetic
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