“Our preliminary look at Intel’s 64-bit Xeon 3.6GHz Nocona
(which happens to be identical to the Intel 3.6F Pentium 4) stirred
up a bit of controversy. The largest two concerns were:
- “We tested Intel’s Xeon server processor against an Athlon
desktop CPU.- “We chose poor benchmarks to illustrate the capabilities of
those processors.“Fortunately, with the help of the other editors at AnandTech,
we managed to reproduce an entire retest of the Nocona platform and
an Opteron 150 CPU…”