Well i must say that i do think that Barton does live up to the hype before the release.
As if you look at the links that are provided be BB2K you see that the 3000+ offers a good performance and is a good condtender to the P4´s offering 3,06Ghz.
Sometimes the one is faster then the other but that is all up to what program is running.
But allround i would call it a draw.
One thing that does amaze me is still the fact that @ 2/3 of the clock speed AMD can put of nummbers so close and above to the P4
But as i see it.. if i need RDRAM ($$$$) inn my computer to get the max performance with the P4 i´ll go back to using a AMD again inn my new computer...
but as a little side note.. Barton won´t save then since the P4 3.2 with 200 buss is going to be released inn April i think.. so is time for the Athlon 64/Hammer core!!!! PLEASE!!!
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