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To: Brian Hutcheson who wrote (41296)	11/12/1998 10:28:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (3) of 1571601

Re: "25% gain in performance for an extra 115% in price that sounds like the normal Intel price/performance curve ." I have a K6-2 with 96 mb of SDRAM running at 3.5 x 112 MHz = 392 MHz. The fact of the matter is that on typical applications in 2D, the difference between this machine and my old K6-233 is not really noticeable (although, for the record, both machines are/were a lot faster than the 200 MHz PPro I use at work). So, in all honesty, I can't figure out why people pay up for 450 MHz PII's unless they're in engineering or otherwise doing some FPU-intensive application (photo rendering, etc.). If you're a gamer, K6-2 or (to a lesser extent) Celeron gives you the performance of a faster clocked PII at a MUCH lower price point. The performance difference is nowhere near 25%. It's more like 2-4%. It's invisible! I have to include that unless you're a heavy professional user of software packages that require serious FPU power, YOU'RE AN IDIOT TO BUY A PII-400 OR 450. If you've got the cash, you're much better investing in a good SCSI drive than in Intel inside and higher megahertz. Kevin

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