* Ben Kochie <ben at nerp.net> [001128 17:50]:
> bah... some info says that the 1.2ghz tbird is still faster than the 1.5.

That info (the MPEG-4 things) and 'old' x87 based binaries is what the
p4 is choking on.  It's SSE2 that really seems to make or break this
chip.

The memory bandwidth, in tests, is 3x the amount of a PIII, and 2x the
size of an athlon.  Wozers.

http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=15000197

Look at the table near the bottom.

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