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The chipset itself is excellent, albeit it wasn't very popular it's a good pick. nforce is rock stable and easy to set up, confirmed by Hewlett-Packard's choice. AMD chipsets are very stable too, but nforce has the easiest configuration steps I've ever seen. Hope the mobo makers build up some...

There is a simple way to proof my installment. Watch Sandra's whetstone x87 FPU scores for P4, now watch P4's SSE2 whetstone scores. P4's SSE2 and the x87 FPU share the same pipeline and Sandra's testing methodology is fairly equal to either x87 and SSE2 FPUs (no SSE2 operand vector-packing)...

While the hardware reviews put the KT333 against i850, was DDR333 ever supported by JEDEC? ;)

Negative, Sandra cpu benchmark, especially the x87 FPU whetstone is very limited by "FXCH's" and it has no optimizations to deal with the FPU stack. Athlon and P4 are capable to deliver much higher x87 FPU performance than what is shown by Sandra. Negative either, save for a specific...

To rephrase my statement, I said everything is bandwidth limited in the sense of the cpu internal registers and caches, which clock at the same speed of the cpu :D

For the issue, everything is memory bandwidth limited. What happens is that the newer games of course demand more DDR or rdram bandwidth, but the step of getting most of the cpus using the caches' bandwidth always was the logical thing to do, thus the most recent games were designed for it. No...

This is synthetic, and andreasl beat the question to a pulp. For example, Sandra reports Hyperthreading boosts P4 performance in ~50%. Intel itself says that Hyperthreading could provide a 20% boost overall, in a turndown, Intel might advocate Sandra which provides best results, but is known...

There are lots of games where the Athlons fare better than the P4's too. The question is, there are bandwidth-bound games (the old Quake 3 is the foremost known example) and cpu intensive engines. Athlon does not have issues running the majority of the newer games faster than P4 in a per clock...

"Also it seems to me like this is another classic case of "it's not fair because my favourite platform is losing". It's funny that during the Willammette days when AMD was winning nobody thought using RDRAM was unfair in those benchmarks. So why the sudden interest now? " Good catch :)

Say hi to everyone. I'm new here. I was lurking around, then I read this comment which interested me. "First off I dont really like the set of benches that Ace's used. Mostly gaming benhcmarks where we know favor the wide bus of the P4. So I dismiss those as being trivial since they really...