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<blockquote data-quote="d4rr3n" data-source="post: 37392"><p>Hey, if you want to believe the benchmarks apple gives you then fine. Looking at the website you'll see that most of the time apple doesn't even use the same program to compare the 2 systems. It's not a benchmark if you use 2 different programs on each system to compare them. Why was apples specs for the p4 and amd so much lower than the program makers listed examples for them? Why was the fps apple listed so much lower than what everyone else gets running the same game? I prefer the numerous INDEPENDENT comparisons like this <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112749,pg,8,00.asp" target="_blank">http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112749,pg,8,00.asp</a> . Keep in mind that these are comparisons of STOCK systems. You can overclock a p4 or amd64 and get 25-50% improvement over what a stock system would get you. And about the ram, 8gb of slower ram isn't going to help speed any. Once you get over 1-2gb of ram it's MUCH more important how fast you are running it than how much you have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="d4rr3n, post: 37392"] Hey, if you want to believe the benchmarks apple gives you then fine. Looking at the website you'll see that most of the time apple doesn't even use the same program to compare the 2 systems. It's not a benchmark if you use 2 different programs on each system to compare them. Why was apples specs for the p4 and amd so much lower than the program makers listed examples for them? Why was the fps apple listed so much lower than what everyone else gets running the same game? I prefer the numerous INDEPENDENT comparisons like this [url]http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112749,pg,8,00.asp[/url] . Keep in mind that these are comparisons of STOCK systems. You can overclock a p4 or amd64 and get 25-50% improvement over what a stock system would get you. And about the ram, 8gb of slower ram isn't going to help speed any. Once you get over 1-2gb of ram it's MUCH more important how fast you are running it than how much you have. [/QUOTE]
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