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To: Charles R who wrote (11217)	10/3/2000 10:03:28 AM
From: that_crazy_doug	Read Replies (1) of 275872

<< I don't know about your needs but I find a 233MMX performance quite acceptable even today. The only real way to say something is good or bad is relative to competition. >> You're right, the only way to say it was good or bad was relative to the competition. It was bad relative to the competition. It suffered more configuration problems, slower clock speeds, and horrible floating point. Duron compared to celeron is an excellent reason to own AMD stock now (which I do 15k shares), but it's not particularly relevent as a reason why Dell should have second sourced back with the k6-2. I still think they would have been crazy to do so. All things being equal I'd want a second source, but all things weren't equal. Intel had a much better product. << I don't ever remember Celeron trouncing K6 by as much as Duron is trouncing Celeron. Competitively speaking, it seemed to have done fine except in FPU which is hardly used by most main stream users. >> Did ever see a k6-2 and celeron next to each other? The performance difference at the same clock speed was easily noticed just running a few simple tasks at the same time (like playing an mp3 while browsing the web). I never had a compatibility issue with a celeron either, while I had several compatibility issues with video cards on the k6-2 line. << If Paul Demone thinks Willamette IPC will be better than Athlon IPC, I would welcome his rights to have a different opinion but would hardly consider him as an expert. >> I would consider the p4 engineers experts, but they're not talking. Out of the opinions I've seen on the various hardware threads Paul seems to go into much more technical detail then anyone else (and therefore seem more knowledgeable on the subject) My only point in referencing Paul is that educated people disagree on the topic which leads me to the 'wait and see' attitude instead of the 'assume p4 will have bad ipc' one.

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