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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (66016)	7/19/1999 1:05:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576282

Tench - RE: "Yes, a single Athlon beating a dual Pentium III system is news indeed, at least for Quake III. But a second processor never bought that much more Quake III performance anyway compared to single-processor systems. This isn't servers we're talking about. Quake III is much like a workstation-like application. And as I suspected in the past, Athlon should do especially well in the graphics workstation niche, where FPU power is key." Yeah, the second processor didn't help as much as it could have. And since Q3 is still in "test" version, I suppose the multi processor support will probably get better. The Athlon still performs puts out a good performance in single CPU benchmarks. And no, I don't expect single Athlons to outperform Dual PIII 550s when the Final Q3 is out. You have to admit, seeing a single CPU system outperform a dual CPU system was interesting. And if FPU is key in the graphic workstation niche, Intel won't be able to compete against the Athlon based only on performance for AT LEAST one year.