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Old 22-07-2003, 18:15   #11
downquark1
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The introduction of the higher FSB speed and the activation of Hyperthreading has shifted the goalposts in the contest for the world's fastest processor. The AMD Athlon XP has lost further ground; its current flagship model, the XP 3200+, can only manage a performance somewhere in between those of the 2.6-GHz and 2.8-GHz Pentium 4. This brings the small matter of model numbering into question once again.
In the benchmark tests intel seem more cost effective to me,
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