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To: Charles R who wrote (71528)	9/9/1999 3:50:00 PM
From: Michael DaKota	Respond to of 1574096

Well...this is really entertaining:) Shark comment on the 100 MHz Coppermine chips : "You'll notice there are two CPUs in that list that are based on Coppermine technology yet operate at a 100MHz front side bus. This is due to the fact that Intel has sold far more 440BX based mainboards than they expected over the past 120 days and they're not anxious to force these consumers, particularly in the corporate arena, to abandon the PCs they just bought. This way, Intel can offer them CPUs that bring more performance than they currently have without a full system upgrade being necessary. " And what happens when people abandon there pc's, and discover that the best thing to buy is....a k7! Offering superior performance over it's intel saplings, at a comparable price, K7 will be a good investment for any customer who was willing to pay big bucks for an intel before. Intel is chickening out, and wants to keep there customers bound to their old system (read : bx-based architecture), because when customers have can choose what they want to buy "from scratch" they probably go with athlon, and when customers have to upgrade....well, there's only one solution there huh? the P3-550. Saves costs! :)

To: Charles R who wrote (71528)	9/9/1999 4:02:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574096

An interesting comment on Sharkeys page: "In raw performance these two improvements should add an increase of approximately 15 to 25% to Coppermine Pentium III CPUs versus current Pentium IIIs when running at identical MHz levels. " If true, this would move the Coppermine well ahead of the MIAthlon in integer performance and very close in FP. Funny, I remember someone mentioning that a few weeks back.... EP