Replies to post #7130 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[wbmw]

Paul, Re: 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

According to Semi's link, a Pentium 4 3.0C outperformed an Athlon 3200+ (2.2GHz). That's an 800MHz spread, not 1200MHz.

Re: Second, look at the FSBs and tell me which is closer to a real world realistic FSB

Again, please refer to Semi's link, in which the CPUs are run at stock speed.

[SemiconEng]

wbmw, yes, P4 has a legitimate win in SuperPi now, with a few caveats to at least consider for the real world.

Paul, Of course we all know that Super Pi has little to do with the real world. The whole point of the posts was to make fun of Dan. I admit, it was a bit cruel, but in the past, Dan has trumpeted Super Pi as the ultimate in benchmarks to show performance...... He pounded the intel fans with it for months. Of course, that was when Athlon was leading in that benchmark, and no amount of LOGICAL "Real World" argument at the time would even budge his position. So I hope that you can forgive us poor intelevangilistas, the jibes at him now, since he has become strangly silent about this benchmark, now that the shoe is on the other foot.

:-)

Semi