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[Phage]

good job THG, how can you find the Benches, which prefer the P4?
And why is on your test, the P4 so good?
On other sites, the AMD rules, but..only on your site the P4 is much better.
On every Hardwaresite, the A64 produces more FPS in Quake3 than the P4...but on THG...a cheap P4 3.0 GHZ, is in Quake3 better.

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[rain_king_uk]

I'm wondering why they overclocked the P4EE is their test too, as I've only heard mention of a P4EE 3.2.

Anyway it seems there's alot more to come from the A64 mobos performance, they seem a bit flakey right now.

 

[Kelledin]

good job THG, how can you find the Benches, which prefer the P4?
And why is on your test, the P4 so good?

One reason, Frank Volkel is incompetent. We've seen this in the past already.

Intel biased? Maybe that too. We don't know. I'll let everyone else weigh in on that.

On other sites, the AMD rules, but..only on your site the P4 is much better.
On every Hardwaresite, the A64 produces more FPS in Quake3 than the P4...but on THG...a cheap P4 3.0 GHZ, is in Quake3 better.

Definitely an oddball result. On AnandTech and [H], all but the weakest Athlon64 (the 3200+ with DDR333) beats a P4 3.2GHz (but not a 3.2EE). So something gives there.

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[Crashman]

I don't think they overclocked the P4 3.2EE, I think they actually received samples of the 3.4EE and 3.6EE from Intel. Reason? Those processors were running stock bus speeds.

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[simwiz2]

There was a review posted yesterday mentioning that the P4 EE samples had unlocked multipliers.

 

[pIII_Man]

my guess is they were overclocked engineering samples.


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[rain_king_uk]

I'm pretty sure they were overclocked, what I want to know is what THG was trying to prove by doing that? Only reason I can see to do it is to make the P4EE look likes it's the best in all tests to the casual viewer.

 

[Crashman]

Unlocked multiplier would make sense. Although that could make the processor incompatable with some boards if it made it into production. I also noticed another site compared overclocked Athlon 64's to stock P4 3.2C processors. I think this just serves to discredit the reviews before the eyes of the uninformed (the informed know those overclocked CPU's are only included for reference, but that's meaningless in this type of comparison).

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[Crashman]

At least the conclusion boiled down to comparing them at rated speeds.

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[rain_king_uk]

True, but I bet the people who take a casual look at the graphs outnumber the ones who read the whole article properly by 5 to 1, or more. I just don't see that including the P4EE at above 3.2Ghz does anything but call into question the integrety of the reviewer, especially as they didn't even justify it anywhere in the text.