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Subject: Re: Strange: Intel better than AMD in this chess test

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 11:25:37 08/10/04

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On August 09, 2004 at 14:50:22, Kim Roper Jensen wrote:

>On August 09, 2004 at 14:44:44, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:
>
>>Usually AMD performs better than AMD in chess but not in this case.
>>I think there must be something wrong.
>>
>>http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2158&p=4
>>
>>Regards,
>>Alvaro Cardoso
>
>something seems broken, i have an athlon64 3500+ out of the box with tscp 1.81 i
>get 314730 n/second with the bench command - so i dont know how they crippled it
>so much..

Anandtech, Tomshardware, HardOCP, the list goes on.. they've all done this.
Stupid stuff like when Tomshardware reviewed the first HT cpus. He ran multiple
non-SMP applications and 'magically' the HT one was twice as fast. No one else
got those results of course.

HardOCP somehow showed a P4-2.53GHz tying and/or beating an Athlon XP running a
true 2.5GHz. This is also complete retardation. I tested a P4-2.53 @ 3.32GHz and
my Athlon XP @ 2.5GHz *STILL* won.

Anandtech continues the "Intel is my hero" game apparently. Comparing the
maximum wattage from the Athlon XP to the Pentium 4's average wattage (not the
maximum). I emailed him *3* times with tech docs showing he was wrong, he did
not change the article. Anandtech has also crippled AMD systems for a long time
now. I've had the same setup he (and Tom) has used and could not reproduce his
low results without making my memory timings poor, clocking the memory down
(making the bus asynchronous), dropping AGP to 1X, etc.

Best way to find out whats faster is to just run the tests yourself.



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