gunf1ghter:
I wasn't really trying to be hostile, you just made a statement about the Palomino's performance like it was a fact having never used one yourself.. I probably shouldn't have responded that way, but it's real hot and humid here and I haven't had my coffee yet..my apologies. Anyway, I would agree that at the same clock speed in most applications, a 1.4ghz Tbird would have pretty similar performance to the Palo @ 1.4ghz, but some things like Seti will really respond to the new core...sort of like how the P4 always does real good @ Q3 benches. I was just pointing out that there were some things that it does perform better than 8% at. I mean when I first got this Athlon 4 setup up and running Seti@Home, I was amazed to finish my first few work units in just over 3hrs flat (3hrs, 8minutes), those are some pretty amazing work unit times! The ALU memory performance really shows how the hardware prefetch really better utilizes DDR.