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Originally Posted by charlie

And HOW is it lacking? I agree the platform is lacking... but what exactly is the CPU lacking? Again, with a LGA775>P-M adapter, on a P5WD2 board... NOTHING could beat it... period. Except for AMR/SLI support...

C

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If we get it to 775, hopefully other manufacturer will create BIOSes (or worst case their own adapters (a lot of different ones)) so we can see Dothan on Intel nForce4. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Troman

depends wich bench wich circumstances..(6.5ghz the stilt 19sec superpi?)
charlie you are sounding like a fanboy ...

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That was one example of cache not being the only factor when it comes to performance.
An even better example is P4 600/EE CPUs compared to FX in 3DMark01.

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Originally Posted by crotale

Well, a P4 with 2mb cache @ some insane 6.5GHz+ doesn't beat a Dothan @ 4GHz, so it's not all about cache or latency, or any other single thing.

It is the whole package: architecture, pipelines, cache (on different levels), as well as the rest of the system, such as dual channel thanks to the adapter.

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Ahem.

P4 L2 cache has MUCH higher latency than A64 has.
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Originally Posted by Troman

depends wich bench wich circumstances..(6.5ghz the stilt 19sec superpi?)
charlie you are sounding like a fanboy ...

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hey troman you have multiple accounts here too?

srry for the offtopic but i needed to say that :)

I think it's Intel that needs fanboys. :)

ps. Simple reasoning and need to have good value for the money does not make anyone fanboy.

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Originally Posted by charlie

And HOW is it lacking? I agree the platform is lacking... but what exactly is the CPU lacking? Again, with a LGA775>P-M adapter, on a P5WD2 board... NOTHING could beat it... period. Except for AMR/SLI support...

C

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Yea It's the best. No doubt about it. :stick:

Even with a 775 adapter it would still loose half of a good encompassing battery of benchmarks vs a P4 or AMD64.

With all due respect>> Nothing could beat it>> is just bs.

Regards,

Tritium

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Originally Posted by alexio

I think he actually has a point here. Not about the 2mb but about the 10ns. The 10ns mem at the pentium-m can handle up to 4ghz with the right cooling. So 10ns mem on the FX-5* would be usefull for up to 4ghz operation. Also the 2mb cache on the Dothan isn't very big so it shouldn't be too expensive to place 1mb of this 10ns stuff at the fx-5* core.

On the other hand it will never happen, so in that way it's pointless yes ;)

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Actually, I dont think you can compare caches directly like that.

I think intel is still using the same cache design.. inclusive or exclusive something.. read it a while ago on a P4 design article.. it uses the cache to store ops utilizing the l1 and l2, rather than AMD's way of just using a dedicated cache for each.