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The Register: Crippled Athlon XP 2000 beats Northwood P4

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 30, 2002

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“So, how does the AXP-2K/DDR system compare with a
Northwood/RAMBUS setup running at nearly twice the clock speed? A
lot better than half as well, that’s for sure.

“We’ll look at the Linux performance first, then Windows. I
think you’re going to as be impressed as I was with this crippled
machine.

“As you may know, I have an aversion to standard benchmarks.
They tell you that system A has better I/O through-put than system
B. What they neglect to tell you is whether or not your machine is
going to do the things you normally ask it to do any faster. I
prefer to compare ordinary tasks, like copying files and
directories, manipulating files, and launching and running
applications in the same way that any user would do it…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

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