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To: Paul Engel who wrote (78259)	4/9/1999 5:13:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) of 186894

Paul, those conclusions look pretty good to me. Re: "Without its precious L2 cache, the K6-3 is nothing more than a K6-2, and without its newly found L3 cache, the K6-3 is quickly able to lose the grip it had on the top of the performance charts." First, it's kind of hard to take away to L2, considering it's right on the chip. Second, keep in mind a super-7 board with 1 mb L3 is still cheaper than a slot 1 board. Together, these facts make this statement pretty useless. Re: "older motherboards with 512KB of cache and those that operate only at the 66MHz FSB will be fine with the K6-3 as an upgrade path for the future." Here I agree with Anand--the K6-III is a great upgrade path or a great new purchase. In any case, no reason to throw away your old socket 7 for a PII/III! Re: "Chances are that the K6-3 won't be released as the world's fastest x86 processor, as Intel does have quite a rollout of new processors due early in January of 1999." Is the 450 MHz K6-III faster than the PIII-550? No. But in most business apps it does beat the PIII-500 (with 2 MB L2) or is comparable (with 1 MB L2). All at a MUCH lower price point. And that's good enough for me. Kevin

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