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jrugen@primenet.com (Jeff Rugen) writes:

>Harlan W. Stockman (hwstock@swcp.com) wrote:
>: marlin@bga.com (Marlin Frederick, Jr.) wrote:
>: >ejohnso2@swarthmore.edu (Ellen S. Johnson) wrote:
>: >>
>: >>SPECint92:  approximately 200    SPECint92:  approximately 133
>: >>SPECfp92:   approximately 200    SPECfp92:   approximately 105
>: >>

>: >performance.  Intel is famous for its Intel Xpress Box.  This is nothing but
>: >a bogus system designed to maximize the Intel performance numbers for Spec
>: >marks.  Really there is a third flaw.  Very few developers do as good a job
>: >optimizing thier software for the hardware as the people running these Spec
>: >test do.

You can buy in in the form of a server PC from several OEM manufacturers. I
think HP is among them..

>: And IBM (Apply by proxy) is famous for quoting calculated SPECint on 
>: hypothetical systems with 2 MB L2 cache with no wait states.  

>: I'd bet that many inexpensive commercial Pentium systems, based on the 
>: Triton chip set and pipeline burst cache and EDO RAM, can now best the 
>: performance of the Intel Xpress box.

>Heh - you think if they'd done that, someone would have bragged about it 
>by now.  Go back to sleep.

There is a considerable speed between the typical low cost mainbords. The
better ones probably come close to the performance of the XXpress mainboard.

Andreas

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