The first question this begs is, Do What? Now I ned a manuel just to understand what I'm buying. Shzzzz.

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

The informed consumer, tinkerer, or IT Professional will have nothing to worry about, but it is the average "mom and pop" user who will have no idea what the hell is going on. It's probably designed so that the average user says "Wow! Look at that performance rating! It MUST be good!". The thing is, how do Intel determine the rating? There's a lot of potential for "padding" the ratings.

@Esq, doesn't the front bus speed mean more anyway than the processor speed?

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

It could be like: "When AMD runs 128mb of such and such rating, we can run nearly 64,000 bytes of that!"

They could rig the tests so it only hits on Inte;'s strong points and make more ratings seem like it's better rounded then AMD's chips.

To be honest, I thought this was a competition to name Intel's next chip.

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@Esq, doesn't the front bus speed mean more anyway than the processor speed?

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FSB or front side bus refers to the speed data is transfered from the cache to the ALU (arithmetic logic unit) , while it is an important factor the clock speed does determine the overall pace of the chip. Think of it like eating food, the FSB is your hands and their speed determines how fast food gets from your plate to your mouth, the ALU is your mouth and it determines how fast food is processed into manageable chunks to be swollowed.

Of course it's a fair bit more complex than that, but that'd be a laymans explination.

Edited by - Mustang on 3/14/2004 3:45:34 PM

More knowledge for my education, thanks Mustang.

When it comes to computers, I want to learn all I can.

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

if thery are trying to describe speed they should just say super slow!

We'll have to see how this plays out, I guess. Greedy Intel bastards *grumble*.

Final - Do you want some sites/resources that you can check out to find out more inofrmation about computers, etc?

@Esq, if its not the normal, dry, form, then Yes I would. Thanks in advance.

Done mostly Comp mags, including Windows, CPU, ect. Minumal books, beyond a repair book.

Michael "Finalday"
In Memory Of WLB

I was just getting used to the P4 EE. I particularly liked that Intel set itself up to have the EE misapplied. Extremely Expensive, etc., etc.

Since the buying public did not react negatively to AMD's methodology and since
it gives the sales flacks lots more room to discombobulate they can add this stuff to their triddenenflaggeractory technical sales talk .

Final - I've sent an email to you. It should do for a start.

Indy - While it is true that AMD's use of the "2000+"-type label did not have an impact upon their sales figures (as far as I know), it is the much sought-after "enthusiast" market who have disliked this scheme (and other factors), and have left AMD and now buy Intel. There are a few "AMD Fanboys", but many of the enthusiasts went to P4's. Although the enthusiast market is a small percentage, these are the people who adopt all of the new tech. first, and also often end up advising friends and relatives about which CPU to buy. For that reason, AMD should try to re-actract them. Still, I think AMD are getting greedy in their old age.

Edit: This article states that the Intel CPUs will be called something along the lines of "Intel 550", etc instead of "Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz, 1MB Cache, 800MHz Front Side Bus, Socket 775". Intel 550? You don't know what you're getting!

Edited by - esquilax on 3/15/2004 2:53:18 PM