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Tests can definitely vary depending on system setup, though in general you can't do the impossible. I'd agree with the conclusion that the P4 2,8GHz has a small upper hand over the Athlon XP 2600+. However, there are a few things in this test which should be duly noted:
They're using a VIA KT400 mobo for the Athlon processor with DDR400 RAM, which in fact hampers the Athlon's performance. There is afaik no official standard for DDR400 yet, and it performs worse than DDR333 does on a KT333 motherboard.
Also, they appear to be running something called Intel Application Accelerator 2.2.2, which sounds like it's somewhat biased towards the Pentium processor.
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