This is getting ugly. I have been following this BAPCO AMD SYSMARK fiasco for past couple of weeks and it doesnt look good. Alhough this is not a breaking news i thought it should get covered here. Here is a snippet from Zdnet-"Chipmaker AMD has leveled criticisms against a widely-used benchmarking suite, calling it biased in the favor of its arch-rival Intel. The move steps up AMD's efforts to ensure that its processors compare favorably with Intel's in the public eye, but some observers say both companies' rhetoric should be taken with a large pinch of salt. " for complete lowdown click 2 ZDNET
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(contd.)Geforce4 ti4600 significantly closer to ATI 9700 but only in 3Dmarks ;& in real life u get only few FPS more than before. read more about this and on Nvidia's tactics @ www.boogletech.com here .Does anybody smell fish here, me says too soon to say.
All this bad blood between AMD & Bapco(which AMD has joined now) was thrown wide open when Tom Pabst of www.tomshardware.com posted his article Tom's Blurb- Battle of hypocrites. You should really read this as you will get to look @ rare behind the scenes look at the relationships between "IT Companies", "hardware reviewers" world known only in the Web-Masters circle. please do post your views KYRO.