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To: Dan3 who wrote (72193)	9/18/1999 11:47:00 AM
From: Windsock	Respond to of 1576179

Re: good, stable motherboards for sale... Advice to fanatic followers: Just drink the Kool Aid, eat the pudding.

To: Dan3 who wrote (72193)	9/18/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: DRBES	Respond to of 1576179

re: "Re: good, stable motherboards for sale..." For all of you schmoos* from the inTEL thread: it really is here and the motherboards are available now (as in "3D NOW!). *See the Lil' Abner cartoon of years gone by for an accurate portrayal of this creature. Basically it is a pump ineffectual creature that spreads good humor by chanting gibberish to all. It is totally harmless provided it is not taken seriously. Do see: pricewatch.com Regards, DARBES

To: Dan3 who wrote (72193)	9/18/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1576179

Dan3, re:<BCM & Biostar currently undergoing certification> BCM already being sold in San Diego. Its the motherboard that powered the TCE system that earned the first endorsement of a non-Intel system from Computer Reseller News. Running at 600MHz, the Athlon was stunning in the Test Center's battery of benchmarks, actually beating by a considerable margin all of Intel Corp.'s 600MHz Pentium III systems on BAPCo SYSmark. The first system to ever break 500 in the Test Center labs, TCE's K7-600 scored 524. Also interesting is the fact that the Athlon system beat all of the Pentium III systems on the BYTEmark benchmark, which allows performance comparisons to be made between different platforms, such as PCs and Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintoshes. Macs usually shine on this test, and a 450MHz G3 Mac used as a baseline was about twice as fast as any Pentium III system for integer-based performance. The AMD Athlon system turned out to be even faster than the G3 for floating-point performance, but not quite as fast as the G3 at integer performance. While a high benchmark score is impressive, all decent PCs today are more than fast enough for most applications. Serviceability and expandability are more important issues, especially to the reseller. Therefore, engineers decided serviceability and expandability would count more toward the Editors' Choice award than performance. The Athlon's performance was so overwhelming compared with its peers that, coupled with scores for serviceability and channel program, the TCE edged out the competition. bcmgvc.com Petz