Pick and choose the benchmarks more carefully so AMD always comes on top? That's what it sounds like you're saying.

I think the AMD 1667 MHz did AMAZING against the P4 2000 MHz.

The AMD actually beat the P4 2.0 GHz in Sandra's CPU benchmarks and all of the P4s in the Dhrystone benchmark and in ScienceMark. The ONLY thing that the P4s beat the Athlon at is is the RAM benchmarks in Sandra and Prime95!

If you average the numbvers, one could actually say that the Athlon really is comparable to a P4 2.0 GHz and deserves the name "2000+". So AMD did a good job with the PR naming. From the way you make it sound, the Athlon should EXCEED a 2.0 GHz comparison!! Now THAT'S biased. THAT'S lopsided.

I used to spend all my days at Anandtech's forums fighting off the Intel zealots that would call the Athlon slow, too hot, unstable. I learned then it's a losing battle. Now I'm over here fighting the same battle, but against people that thing that the benchmarks should be hand picked to favor AMD.

It really is a losing battle.

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