Replies to post #12672 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[upc]

Those are very unimpressive improvements, and the methodology has problems:

1. No raw scores given in the notes only ratios, so 32bit performance could be artificially low. No way to compare with the competition. What are they afraid of?

2. Unclear if 1 or 2 processors used, notes only say "processors". I think 2 is more likely...

3. DIFFERENT amounts of memory in the machine!!! 4GB in 32bit test, 8GB in 64bit test. This alone could be responsible for much of the improvement.

upc

[Windsock]

While Xeon is faster when running 64 bit software, Opteron slows down when 64 bit mode is used.

UPC was informed of this result before but he stil has his blinders on.

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=3697155


"AMD's 64 bit Opteron - How to Slow Down Game Performance !!

Note that this is from an AMD fanboy site."