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Intel "Northwood" vs. Athlon XP 2000+

Posted by timothy on from the alright-you-two-cut-that-out dept.

Augustus writes: "LinuxHardware.org has just published their results in the Pentium 4 verses Athlon XP war. In this review, the new Pentium 4 'Northwood' 2.2GHz is pitted against the Athlon XP 2000+. To level the playing field, both platforms use DDR memory which make for some interesting results."

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  1. I have one, and.. by Evanrude · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I am running Linux on Dual Athlon XPs. Does that make it Linux XP?

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  2. /.'ed already by ZaMoose · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Perhaps they should have used the test machines to host their website...

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    1. Re:/.'ed already by Tower · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      The last /.ing of LinuxHardware was due to provider bandwidth rather than server constraint. I'm guessing this is the same issue.

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    2. Re:/.'ed already by marcop · · Score: 2, Offtopic

      Well, maybe they ditched all the load balancing and extra hardware and placed only these machines as the webserver. It's a new benchmark: how long does a system last a nice /.'ing?

  3. Re:Slashdotted... Why no /. mirror? by renehollan · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    He he.

    Mine involved encoding it in white space between words and having the words describe the encoding.

    Oh! No! Gotta ban spaces now!!

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  4. Re:In an effort to remain accurate... by Cardhore · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I agree. Google can cache its sites. Why can't slashdot?

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  5. Re:In an effort to remain accurate... by Lyrrad · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I agree. Google can cache its sites. Why can't slashdot?

    How did this get modded up?

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