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To: Dan3 who wrote (67950)	8/7/1999 10:19:00 PM
From: survivin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578270

Dan Preview to Monday? Here is another set of German benchmarks. These are notable not only because the Athlon makes a clean sweep, but I believe they are the first comprehensive set of office applications. Pretty impressive. pcwelt.de ATHLON: Fight the Pentium III The results of the Sysmark test Sysmark 98,1,0 (1) Athlon 600 PIII 600 PIII 550 SysmarkRating 252 229 212 OfficeProductivity 242 229 212 Content Creation 266 229 213 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Run1=Bryce®2 294 239 215 Run2=CorelDRAW(TM) 8.0 275 249 230 Run3=Elastic Reality®3.1 249 229 211 Run4=Excel 97 217 211 195 Run5=Extreme 3D(TM) 2 279 230 215 Run6=NaturallySpeaking(TM)2.02 227 218 204 Run7=Netscape®4.05 211 209 195 Run8=OmniPage pro®8.0 265 233 216 Run9=Paradox®8.0 235 230 218 Run10=Photoshop®4.0.1 232 218 209 Run11=PowerPoint®97 235 229 211 Run12=Premiere®4.2 268 243 232 Run13=Word 97 269 253 232 Run14=XingMPEG Encoder 2.1 270 223 205

To: Dan3 who wrote (67950)	8/8/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1578270

Dan 15/5 - I liked this comment from the AMD Cheerleader: penstarsys.com "As much as I hate to say it, until I get a K7 Athlon, I may just use my Intel Based system for the main computer. In the entire time I have had it, it hasn't given me a lick of trouble as compared to my AMD based machine. It looks though as if the K7 machines based on the AMD 751 Irongate chipset is going to be very solid, unlike the VIA and ALI chipsets for the K6 series." Paul

To: Dan3 who wrote (67950)	8/8/1999 1:27:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578270

This guy, gecs.com A tier 3 vendor, is offering this system on eBay: ================================================== THE ATHLON AMD K7 CPU'S HAVE ARRIVED. FEEL THE POWER OF THE ATHLON K7/650 CPU CONTAINING 128K L1 CACHE, AND 512K L2 CACHE, 200MHZ BUS, AND MULTI-PROCESSING CAPABILITIES. THIS COMPUTER WILL KICK BUTT!!! G.E.C.S. SELLS OVER 5000 PC'S PER YEAR TO OVER 25 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES! Athlon K7/650 CPU w/128K Level 1 and w/512K Level 2 Cache Floating Point Unit is 46% faster than the Intel Pentium III CPU's! 200Mhz mainboard bus speed Microstar Slot A mainboard w/AGP v4.0 and UDMA/66 support. HUGE Slot A Ball bearing heatsink/cooling fan. High Speed I/O Controller Built On (4 IDE, 2 serial, 1 parallel) 1.44MB floppy drive DVD-3 5X DVD, 32X CDROM drive DVD-ROM high performance DVD software three 168pin DIMM sockets ATX Form Factor 2 PS/2 Ports (1 mouse and 1 keyboard) 2 Universal Serial Bus Ports Mid Tower Case with 250watt power supply, ATX Format 128MB SDRAM DIMM 8ns 3.3v PC100 Diamond Viper V770 32MB AGP video card 4 speaker stereo surround sound support 450watt speakers P.M.P.O. with subwoofer Motorola PCI 56K modem voice/data/fax internal v.90 17.2GB UDMA/66 5400RPM Hard Drive 104 keys Windows 95 Multimedia keyboard Logitech Firstmouse+ PS/2 2 button Wheel Scroll mouse High end Lexan Mouse Pad Over 650MB of high quality software pre-installed! assembled, tested, and burnt in properly packaged for shipping purposes Windows 98 installed for testing and system verification only, then removed Lotus Smartsuite Millenium Edition v9.0 on CD FULL VERSION 2 years labor/1 years parts warranty Shipping done UPS 5 day insured ========================================== If AMD is making enough 650s to have then available at this level already, they probably have a good shot at getting another 100MHZ once they have a few more months of production experience under their belts. Maybe November 750s at some volume are possible. Jerry has said he's going to keep 25% below Intel clock-for-clock. Intel looks ready to keep cutting prices to maintain market share. Is there a risk that Intel will introduce its 700MHZ coppermine at something like $250 (and start paying OEMs to haul away the celerons and Pentium IIIs?) :-) What is the potential damage to Everybody's ASPs if this grudge match continues? I can't imagine that these two companies won't call a truce at some point - but at what point will that happen? Dan