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Old August 11th 04, 06:21 AM
JK
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Stephen Gordon wrote:

Hi,

I had a look at those benchmarks and it seems as soon as you put the
resolution up the Athlon 64s drop nearly 20fps while the Intel ones seem
to drop a much smaller amount.

This seems to indicate that the Athlon 64s don't perform very well when
you put them under any real pressure.


Your interpretation is wrong. The large drop for the Athlon 64 when the
resolution is raised means that the video card is the bottleneck,
and is holding back the cpu from achieving its potential. For
the cpus where there is a small change, it means the cpu is the
bottleneck, and is holding back the video card.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=2149&p=1



-Steve