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To: Process Boy who wrote (70411)	8/31/1999 4:31:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573922

First Athlon vs. PIII comparison with 256M RAM (I think) review-zone.com Athlon 550 beats a PIII overclocked to 650 using Win98 In WinNT Athlon is even better, a "lowly" $250 Athlon 500 beats "Intel's finest," the PIII-600. In gaming, the Athlon was typically 1/2 to 1 speed grade ahead of PIII except for Quake 2 and 3, which showed a 3-4 speed-grades margin due to 3DNow enhancements. A couple SSE-optimized apps w/o 3DNow support showed PIII ahead of Athlon. The significance of this review is that with additional memory, the Athlon increases its lead over the PIII. Also, few of the CPU comparisons so far have measured performance over the entire range of 500 to 650 MHz. Petz