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FishTankX

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P4 Excretment edition. LOL!

No, seriously. The AthlonFX series was no worse than the P4EE as it was just basicly taking an opteron 148 and calling it an 'FX" (A shamefull ripoff of Nvidia I might say)
 
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Originally posted by: FishTankX
P4 Excretment edition. LOL!

No, seriously. The AthlonFX series was no worse than the P4EE as it was just basicly taking an opteron 148 and calling it an 'FX" (A shamefull ripoff of Nvidia I might say)
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No worse than them ripping off MS with the athlon XP, AMD really need some marketing people....
 
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MournSanity

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Originally posted by: FishTankX
They should've called the Athlon something impressive. Like, the Athlon Hypersonic
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Why would they want to name the Athlon after me? :confused:
 
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jhu

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that's pretty pathetic actually. the itanium2 is cheaper than that, and way faster
 
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Pariah

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Not if you're running 32bit code, which I hear is still used occasionally even today.
 
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Sunner

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Originally posted by: jhu
that's pretty pathetic actually. the itanium2 is cheaper than that, and way faster
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I wonder if the >$1000 Itaniums are actually faster than the P4 EE...the P4's aren't THAT far from the Madison Itanium II/6 MB, and to get below 1K, all of the higher end Itaniums are out of the question.
 
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dexvx

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Originally posted by: Sunner
Originally posted by: jhu
that's pretty pathetic actually. the itanium2 is cheaper than that, and way faster
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I wonder if the >$1000 Itaniums are actually faster than the P4 EE...the P4's aren't THAT far from the Madison Itanium II/6 MB, and to get below 1K, all of the higher end Itaniums are out of the question.
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INT wise, no, the Itanium II series are probably slower. FP, however is a different story.

http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/cfp2000.html

The FP for the P4-EE is around 1500, a pretty significant boost from the 1250 of the regular 3.2C.

Even the modest 1.3Ghz / 3MB model posts an FP score of 1800. The lower end 1Ghz models post around the 1400 mark. And the slowest 900Mhz/1.5MB (which are not made anymore) post about 1200. Real world, the Itanium II has shown that it bests the P4.

For reference, the 1.5Ghz/6MB posts a score of about 2200.
 
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gsellis

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The Register has been calling it "Extremely Expensive" with cause. One of my co-workers refers to the pricing scheme as "Geek Tax". Fits.
 
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gsellis

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The Register has been calling it "Extremely Expensive" with cause. One of my co-workers refers to the pricing scheme as "Geek Tax". Fits.
 
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