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To: Petz who wrote (72085)	9/17/1999 2:34:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573420

Petz - Re: "While the fights were extremely close, the CPU-specific benchmarks on the preceeding pages show that the Athlon has the edge in real-world performance. " Sheesh ! The vaunted 7'th generation ATHLON only "edges out" the 5 year old 6'th generation Pentium III core ! Sounds like the 7'th generation AMD core isn't all that it's cracked up to be ! Did you ever think of that ? Maybe AMD better get their 8'th generation core out real soon - or they may fall behind - again ! Paul

To: Petz who wrote (72085)	9/17/1999 2:46:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1573420

Petz - RE: "skipping forward to........... THE JUDGES' DECISION And the winner is ... AMD Athlon! While the fights were extremely close, the CPU-specific benchmarks on the preceeding pages show that the Athlon has the edge in real-world performance. In both the evenly matched undercard and lopsided main event (in which the Pentium III weighed in light by 50 MHz), the Athlon proved itself the more formidable processor. In an even 600 MHz matchup, the Athlon-driven Compaq machine posted a bootMark score that was 16 points higher than that achieved by the stronger performer of the two 600 MHz P-IIIs. In the main event, the Athlon hit a 41 point advantage. The bootMark guages a CPU's pure integer and cache performance. The bootMark rounds go to Athlon --- decisively. ... The Athlon easily toyed with the P-III in the SYSmark rounds, indicating it's simply the superior processor if you use a wide variety of Windows 98 apps." No need to post this same old drivel OVER and OVER again. You don't want to upset the "other folks"! ;)