These Dual 1.99GHz Palomino benchmarks are fake. They're Photoshopped pictures.
You can see this picture here (http://tbloss.hypermart.net/images/fake.png), which has some parts of the 'benchmarks' enlarged by pixel resize (so no filtering hasbeen applied). Section 1 clearly shows the very wrong color graduation in the benchmark bars, section 2 shows that some text is not properly aligned and section 3 shows the incredible difference in pixelation on different parts of the picture (which could be attributed to compression). Lastly (this is not included in the picture), the 'Dhrystone' text in the "Athlon benchmark" is wrongly positioned (too low) in comparison with the rest of the benchmark bars...
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These Dual 1.99GHz Palomino benchmarks are fake. They're Photoshopped pictures. You can see this picture here (http://tbloss.hypermart.net/images/fake.png), which has some parts of the 'benchmarks' enlarged by pixel resize (so no filtering hasbeen applied). Section 1 clearly shows the very wrong color graduation in the benchmark bars, section 2 shows that some text is not properly aligned and section 3 shows the incredible difference in pixelation on different parts of the picture (which could be attributed to compression). Lastly (this is not included in the picture), the 'Dhrystone' text in the "Athlon benchmark" is wrongly positioned (too low) in comparison with the rest of the benchmark bars...