"Isnt as fast as intels?? Mhz dosent mean a crap, i have a 1800mhz P4 sitting here and an old ahtlon 1.4ghz and guess what?? The athlon is WAY faster, even though the p4 has way higher mhz + even higher front side bus."
The P4 will trash the athlon at encoding etc .. why because of improvements and not just uping the core speed like AMD.
"When they say the XP2000 is faster than intel, then they arent lying at all, its actually way faster."
Intel think more about feature then speed for games like AMD , features like decent heat protection ... and the IA64 platform being a new , fresh platform unlike the previous X86 kludge and AMDs attempt.
My mate being a uni geek reads tech docs , he read the Intel ones for the P4 and found a new respect for the so called arseholes of the CPU market ... I'm not saying their gods , but they are advancing instead of just speeding up.
