Originally posted by: CrazySaint
Interesting review. Yeah, the DDR beat the PC800 one many of the benchmarks, but it also trailed the PC800 on quite a few. THG doesn't seem happy unless they run AT LEAST 2,934 benchmarks for each review (

), so I didn't bother counting benches to see which RAM type was a head in most benchmarks, but it appeared pretty even. Also, near as I could tell, when the PC2700 DID lead the PC800, it was usually by 1-3%, and I don't think it was every by more than 5% (and that, rarely). I would probably, call it a tie, or perhaps give the DDR a very slight lead, but certainly nothing that would warrant calling a system running PC800 "handicapped". In all honesty, I would imagine that if you setup three identical P4 systems side-by-side, with the only difference being that one system uses PC800, one PC2700, and the third PC1066, I'm guessing that with the possible exception of a few specific apps, you would be very hard pressed to tell a difference between them. And darn you for making me "defend" RDRAM!
Yep, very nice

Btw, did you read Anand's article on Intel's 0.9 process? Very impressive!
Well, first off that article talks about Xeons, not "ordinary" P4s (although a Northwood should presumably have similar results in the same apps), second, as you said, by far, the most largest gains are in server apps, which has very little to do with what most people use - the same can be said for 3DSMax. Also, there were several benchmarks where enabling HT actually caused a
decrease in performance, including Photoshop, which is the closest benchmark in that article that covers "real world" performance for most people. So, to say that enabling HT automatically offers a "30% increase" in performance without any caveats, while technically accurate, is a bit misleading to most people. I could just as easily say it causes a 19%
drop in performance.
No problem, some people just get too worked up about these things.