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To: Gary Ng who wrote (33004)	5/29/1998 2:30:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) of 1570843

Gary Ng: You say, Now if you are running Quake II(which seems to be the best 3DNow! optimized game), K6-2-300 is on par with PII 300(within 1-2% difference). *NOT* In BOOT magazines gaming system (two 3D accelerators) we fine that the Intel system cannot feed the accelerators enough information to keep them running full speed, especially at high resolution. AMD system is 15% faster at 800x600 resolution (pretty crappy for a 17" monitor) and 39% faster for 1024x768. GLQuake II 333MHz-K6-2 333MHz Pentium II 640x480 71.3fps 68.8fps 800x600 71.3fps 62.0fps 1024x768 62.2fps 44.7fps MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE K6-2-300 ON SUPER SOCKET 7 $99 MOTHERBOARD IS AS FAST AS PENTIUM II -300 ON WINBENCH '98. The K6-300 used to be somewhat slower than a Pentium II-300 on Winbench'98, now the K6-2 is equal. The K6-300 used to perform like an MMX-233 on Quake, now the K6-2-300 is faster than a Pentium II-350. Finally, it is incorrect to say that this GL-Quake is optimized for the K6-3D. It merely uses the OPEN-GL API written by Microsoft (?) and optimized for 3D-NOW! technology. Expect a lot more OPEN-GL games to run fast on K6-2 just like GL-Quake. Petz

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