Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 09:57:51 12/01/02
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On December 01, 2002 at 12:28:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 01, 2002 at 05:03:00, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>Also a comparison of the new AMD XP 2600+ Vs Intel P4 2.53 Ghz ! >> >>http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q3/020821/athlonxp-04.html > > >That just highlights what others have said before. AMD has a memory >bottleneck that is hurting them significantly in the war with Intel... Hyatt, it's not nearly as bad as you think. It happens I have a KT333 chipset on an Epox 8K5A2. I'm running "Turbo" settings in the bios (but running CL2.5 instead of CL2(cl2=faster)) and I'm getting 2.5gb/s. This just proves once again Tom is a bad reviewer. There's already proof out he faked a Pentium4 review and I have proof he hinders Athlons (by setting their bios settings to the absolute lowest setting). The KT333 set to "turbo" has an efficiency of 94%, this means out of 2.7GB/s max theoretical bandwidth at 166fsb(333DDR) it does 2538MB/s. Since mine is CL2.5 I'm only running 90% efficiency (2430mb/s). With Nforce2 boards and running 200+ fsb you can get over 3gb/s on an Athlon easily. Same with the Epox 8K9A2. Tom however is managing a horrible 74%. You can do better than this even setting the settings to 'normal'. He has disabled other options to get the benchmarks THAT low. 26% below regular 166fsb(333DDR) scores is pretty bad. Even your average KT266a/333/400 board at 133fsb gets about 2gb/s. About the faked review he did.. it's the "Hot contraband P4-3.6GHz". He used a Pentium4 2GHz CPU and cut&pasted some of the 3's to make it look like a 3.3GHz P4. The picture is STILL on his page. Just go look at that article and save the large P4 picture. Go into an image editing program and go near the bottom where it says "80531PC3.3G0K". Drag a selection box around the second three in that line and copy it, invert the colors and then drag that over the other three. You will see a black box where the colors match EXACTLY. This was a cut & paste job. Tom isn't the only corrupt reviewer, either.
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