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Subject: Re: a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:51:57 06/10/02

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On June 10, 2002 at 17:52:19, David Dory wrote:

>On June 10, 2002 at 16:05:40, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>a rose by any other name would smell as sweet!
>>
>>and a donkey which is called a thoroughbred will still run like a donkey!!
>>
>>http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1635&p=7
>>
>>rajen
>
>Oh it's still a good horserace, rajen. Notice how carefully they avoided all the
>particulars (FSB, memory type, mobo, etc.) for this test?
>
>I was going to write something like "and if you want your donkey rendered and
>encoded a million times, you should get a jackass intel CPU to do it!"
>
>But, punchy as the above is, I like intel CPU's AND AMD's also, and have one of
>each. For chess, I find the AMD significantly quicker, but your favorite
>program, with your memory, your mobo, may be different. Check it out on your
>system, and compare with others.
>
>It's a great horserace, and we consumer's are always riding a winner!

If someone is interested in something besides gaming, the outcomes might be very
different too.

Where are the spec and specint results?  Every single test seems to be "how fast
can you render a video frame?"

For Crying Out Loud.



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