Classy, you'll get no arguement from me as to which is --currently-- the better cpu/mobo combo, that's fairly obvious from both a clock-for-clock aspect, platform features aspect, and price/performance ratio. If you read my 1st post in this thread you'll see where I'm coming from.
As for right now, all that can be done is speculate what Intel is bringing to the table to replace P4 or as an alternative to P4, not sure what they will do. The current 855 platform doesn't some of the benefits the new platforms do. Obviously if Intel brings Dothan to desktop, it will be on a new chipset w/ DC memory, 200 or higher fsb cpus and mobos, PCI locks, etc. With that follows all the performance and bandwith benefits that A64 has now.
Paraphrasing LTC8K6, given the archaic platform that is being used for testing, the results show some promise. Also as mentioned in several of the Dothan reviews was that the massive L2 will cover up the low memory bandwith. This inversly implies that a higher bandwith platform would do little for increasing performance. As pointed out in my first post, there is considerable benefit from fsb scaling which in turn points to better performance once the platform is upgraded than we are seeing in the reviews.
As far as ultimate frequency scaling, that is an unaswered question. It looks like it's got to scale clock-for clock and $-for-$ with A64 to be sucessful. A few reviews have had them at 2.4-2.5. Nobody is going to see how high these puppies can get until the boards get some PCI locks.
Finally, I couldn't give a rat's a$$ who's label is on my cpu. I have no emotional attachment to hardware, so if your looking for a fanboy response, look elsewhere. If there was no competion, we'd all be on slower machines and paying more for the pleasure.
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