We have recently been in contact with a swedish company that sets up computing cluster to run a program called Fluent to do Chemical analysis I believe. According to them the Athlon systems that they have outperform equivalently clocked PIII's by 25-30%. Talk about blowing away...:o)
Okay....let's goto sharky's site...the same site that was hashed all over the net when they posted their first Athlon reviews that said the Athlon wasn't faster clock for clock with the PIII when there was half a dozen sites that said that it was...Hrm.....Which would you believe? Also, what are you gonna put that brand spanking new PIII in?
Okay....let's goto sharky's site...the same site that was hashed all over the net when they posted their first Athlon reviews that said the Athlon wasn't faster clock for clock with the PIII when there was half a dozen sites that said that it was...Hrm.....Which would you believe?
Uh..Exactly...well...minus the nerd boy thing. The Althlon will run the EXACT same code as the Intels. So you can compare the same App! not just bench a certain task....And unfortunately (or fortunately if you are a hard core gamer) this is what is currently driving the market. You think all us Techno wenies are driving the market? Well...not really. If you only run freeware stuff that comes with source and you want to port all that code to an Alpha that's fine....but for I would guess 70% of the retail customers out there this is not the case....
Okay....but kinda hard to compare an Alpha to a Intel or AMD dirrectly because they don't use the x86 instruction set! Apples to apples is why it's a big comparison....And the really great thing is that the only that really differs between the two computing platforms is the motherboard and said processor. I guess you can argue RAM now with RAMBUS.....but that's another sad story.
256K running at full speed is only with coppermine.:o) They ARE the same core logic. Just a couple parts thrown in. There's no difference in the internal ogice of registers or buffers (aside from the cache thing).....so Still that much different?? I think not!
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We have recently been in contact with a swedish company that sets up computing cluster to run a program called Fluent to do Chemical analysis I believe. According to them the Athlon systems that they have outperform equivalently clocked PIII's by 25-30%. Talk about blowing away...:o)
Your reasons are valid...The big thing is though the original poster said....IT'S FREE! You don't support them.
Okay....let's goto sharky's site...the same site that was hashed all over the net when they posted their first Athlon reviews that said the Athlon wasn't faster clock for clock with the PIII when there was half a dozen sites that said that it was...Hrm.....Which would you believe? Also, what are you gonna put that brand spanking new PIII in?
Okay....let's goto sharky's site...the same site that was hashed all over the net when they posted their first Athlon reviews that said the Athlon wasn't faster clock for clock with the PIII when there was half a dozen sites that said that it was...Hrm.....Which would you believe?
Uh..Exactly...well...minus the nerd boy thing. The Althlon will run the EXACT same code as the Intels. So you can compare the same App! not just bench a certain task....And unfortunately (or fortunately if you are a hard core gamer) this is what is currently driving the market. You think all us Techno wenies are driving the market? Well...not really. If you only run freeware stuff that comes with source and you want to port all that code to an Alpha that's fine....but for I would guess 70% of the retail customers out there this is not the case....
Okay....but kinda hard to compare an Alpha to a Intel or AMD dirrectly because they don't use the x86 instruction set! Apples to apples is why it's a big comparison....And the really great thing is that the only that really differs between the two computing platforms is the motherboard and said processor. I guess you can argue RAM now with RAMBUS.....but that's another sad story.
256K running at full speed is only with coppermine. :o) They ARE the same core logic. Just a couple parts thrown in. There's no difference in the internal ogice of registers or buffers (aside from the cache thing).....so Still that much different?? I think not!