<<Your words are flawed, The fact is the PR system tells the real truth and that is Mhz means NOTHING and performance is all, Intel consistanly tell people that there P4 huge Mhz is the best, however this a crap because AMD's AthlonXP's clocked at 400Mhz slower can give the same performance, how else are AMD supposed to tell people as they think more Mhz =Faster.
AMD are only at 1.73Mhz but it's performance is equel to that of a 2.2Ghz P4, how the hell are you supposed to tell people that the 1.73Ghz is faster than a 2.2Ghz?, yep, the PR system does that quite well indeed. by saying Mhz means NOTHING, after all your not getting a slower CPU and your paying a third of the price for the same performance. >>
My words weren't flawed, i never stated Mhz mean jack. Mhz definately DON't mean much now adays, they used to, but not anymore.
The problem lies in the fact that AMD MADE UP this supposed "PR" rating system. That is a serious flaw in itself. There needs to be a non-bias party, or a board of people that set the standards for performance. There needs to be a set standards of benchmarks and test that will represent the true performance of a CPU, not based on Mhz.
AMD has created their OWN rating system which is very flawned, bias, and simply screwed up. There are different performance percentages between one chip and another, even though they are based on the same standard? One chip XP chip @ xxxmhz has a rating of 1700. But the next chip set at xxxmhz has a pr rating of 1800. Now the change in the technology is nihl, they are the same core, same everything. But why does the 1800 have a 15% increase while the 1700 has a 12%. I don't have the actual numbers, but it's been noted that the PR scale is baed on a "Fluxuating Scale" and that several chips have large increases than others. If thats not flawed....i dont know what is.
I'm ALL for a rating system if done non-bias and appropriately. But if Intel made up their own system basing the p4 off the pentium 2 and started saying their 2.4ghz chip is a 5000+, all theses zelots/fanboys would be throwing an absolute fit! It wouldn't be right either! It's not right for AMD to do it, and it's not right for Intel to do it.