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To: John Brzezniak who wrote (62)	3/27/1997 7:30:00 PM
From: Anthony Mascarenhas	of 77

John, <<If you look at home.t-online.de you'll find that Klamath is in the same league as the K6...> The benchmark results were on a prototype version of the Klamath. <<Note that at 250 mhz the secondary cache is running at bus speed which is 83 mhz...> This is a highly unstable configuration. Most of today's chipset's do not support this. AMD by using its own chipset (from 3rd party) will attempt to exploit this feature, but that will be later this year or early next year, when the Deschutes with 100 Mhz bus will also be out. Furthermore, the slot 1 design allows for the scaling of the L2 in accordance with the CPU clock speed. This is a BIG ADVANTAGE. << I'm not that bent on the k6 beating the klamath but the big win for me is that when it comes time to upgrade, all I need to do is buy the chip. If I wanted a klamath then I'd have to get a new motherboard and a new chip...>> 1. If you want the performance you will have to get a new motherboard that has a chipset that can be clocked at the relevant frequencies. 2. Dont fool yourself that you can plug in a K6 into an existing Pentium motherboard and it will work in every case. There are BIOS changes and not all motherboards can have their BIOS upgraded. Furthermore, new BIOS new K6 will take a while until all the bugs are worked out. <<The klamath will be 25% more than the k6 and klamath motherboards will probably start around $200 or so...> For all the performance advantages, the Price/Performance works out to be about the same. Furthermore Intel has more price cuts later this year, and aims to make the Pentium 200 the low end by 1Q next year. << I think AMD will be pretty successfull with this chip.>> You are entitled to your opinion. regards Anthony

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