Benchmark Objections

Why is it that Tom's Hardware is comparing apples and oranges with the Athlon XP Tbred and Intel P4. In theory you should be able to compare the two processors head to head. However in the real world you can't. So you build systems to test them. Here is where my objection comes in. Everyone and their grandmother knows that Chipzilla (Intel) screwed over any other type of memory architecture except for Rambus RIMM.
Which are expensive, proprietary and soon to be left by the wayside by DDR. So why are you testing high high bandwith 800 and 1066 RIMMs against not so high bandwith 2700 DDR? Wouldn't a more appropriate test for consumers and games be a direct head to head comparison of two systems using DDR or even SDRAM. Wouldn't we then see result more inline with what we have come to expect out of AMD? Personally I have a huge amount of input and say as to what my company buys. I have avoided Rambus RIMMs like the plague since their inception. Lets see a more realistic comparison between the two cpus. Not one where intel has the advantage going in. Which would you drag race with a ferrai using unleaded or a funny car using nitrometh?

agreed I like the nascar thing

cheap, cheap. Think cheap, and you'll always be cheap.AMD version of semi conducteur industrie

Note the "stranger" bit.

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ditto

<b>Who fixed <font color=red>ATI</font color=red>'s leaky faucet??</b>