Replies to post #7120 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Not a Short]

Maybe Dan3 isn't saying anything about it anymore because he learned?

I still say there are plenty of biased benchmarks out there but I'd never heard of SuperPi before the stock boards and never heard of it outside of them since. I don't think there ever were many people that assigned much value to that benchmark.

[j3pflynn]

wbmw, yes, P4 has a legitimate win in SuperPi now, with a few caveats to at least consider for the real world. For one, the MHz gap required at the top end to beat XP is 1200MHz, which is more than the gap that exists now in available models. Second, look at the FSBs and tell me which is closer to a real world realistic FSB, the XP's(max of @20% above highest supported FSB speed) or the P4's (max of @ 60% above highest supported FSB speed). I will give Intel congrats on the job well done with the chipset, though. It would be interesting to compare with a similar FSB increase. But if wishes were horses, we'd all take a ride....
Paul
http://www16.big.or.jp/~bunnywk/cgi-bin/superpi.cgi