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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (73552)	9/30/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

The fallout begins.... From PCWorld..... www1.pcworld.com "AMD's brand-new 650-MHz CPU, the Athlon, rumbled to speed records on our Windows 98 tests and allowed AMD to pull farther ahead of Intel in the chip derby. On a variety of tests, an Athlon-650 reference desktop system--though not significantly faster than the average Athlon-600 PC we have tested--blew away the average Pentium III-600 machine by 14 percent or more." "So, if you need speed now, Athlon systems are worth a look. But if you can wait a few months, Intel will be shipping faster PIII systems using its 820 chip set. This chip set, due out in late September, supports a 133-MHz front-side bus (the path from CPU to chip set) and 4X AGP graphics. Some systems using this chip set will include Rambus DRAM, a fast new kind of memory. Early systems with this chip set will run faster, but they probably won't catch the Athlon." Let me get this straight, new benchmark records, Rambus and the 820 may run faster but probably won't catch Athlon, so you should wait a few months and buy the Intel product. Show me the money! STAY TUNED! steve