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Constantine, I'm not sure what you think the big deal is. I didn't know when Digit-Life decided to become AMD's marketing voice, but they are clearly using AMD's slides, their marketing ideas, their TPI, and their performance claims as the basis for the entire article. I've seen you convinced over AMD marketing before, so it's not at all surprising that you're buying this info now.

If AMD is able to gather their benchmarks of choice, then it's pretty obvious they will choose ones that put the Athlon 64 in the best light possible. Their SPEC benchmarks are also outdated, as almost all the Pentium 4 and Xeon based systems have since been updated with higher scores. SPECfp is also heavily influenced by memory bandwidth, which the Pentium 4 will get with a faster front side bus and dual channel DDR.

The rest of the article is nothing more than AMD bullish tripe. I'll wait for the official reviews.

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