Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Elmer Phud]

sgolds

While I think the P4 concept is a cynical attempt to ripoff consumers with high clock rates

I thought you said you spent 20 years as an engineer. Doesn't sound like it here. You imply that Intel designed the uA of the P4 to run at higher clockrates for the single purpose of ripping off the consumer. Frankly that's a dumb statement. The P3 uA was out of gas on the highend and the fact that P4 even kicks Opteron's butt in single processor applications makes your statement look terribly foolish. P4 will scale to 10GHz over it's lifetime and with each process generation the performance advantages become more obvious and your statement becomes more foolish.