Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[mmoy]

> I would hardly call it scientific to refer to Task Manager in
> your performance investigation.

Why? What tool would you use to measure CPU busy/idle? If you
look at view columns in the task manager process display, what
does it look like? How about the VMS SHOW PROCESS command?

> People here are treating it as some kind of profound Conroe
> weakness to have received a fraction of the performance of
> your 3200+ in your showcase app; but something that far off
> the scale is not profound... it's just nonsense.

If one of my users has an anomaly with one of my products, I look into it. And do my best to figure out what the problem is. Of course I have a variety of tools to analyze and diagnose problems. I don't tell them that it's just nonsense. Because
that's insulting someone that's potentially doing me a great
service in identifying a problem with my product. In fact large
corporations and even open source organizations spend a lot of
money on product defect issues.

At any rate, you're getting your Conroe soon and I'll be happy
to walk you through doing a build. And then you can see for
yourself.