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To: vince doran who wrote (75396)	10/13/1999 4:53:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572932

RE:"I think AMD better concentrate on getting some better chipsets into the market unless they can maintain a clear megahertz lead."... I think AMD better maintain the MHZ lead. As far as the cumine 700 at 800. That was an engineering sample, un clocklocked. Which kind of calls the whole thing into question. Some hand picked .25u Athlons will run at 1000MHZ... Jim

To: vince doran who wrote (75396)	10/13/1999 5:12:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572932

On second review, it seems some guys did some comparisons of the benchmarks on the pages you put up and came to the following conclusions. 1. The coppermine scales linearly with the P-III. It's not 20% faster has some have hyped. What an embarrassment for Intel but I'm sure they will make some new "performance benchmarks". 2. The Coppermine at 800 MHZ is the equivalent of an Athlon at 650 MHZ. anandforums.gisystech.com Check out this post..."You know what I find really sad? That the Cumine scales linearly with the PIII. Their tests showed an almost perfect linear increase from a PIII 500 to the Cumine 800! I thought Cumine was supposed to be 20% faster than current PIII's? Hehe, talk about be caught with your pants down . What really surprises me is that the guys at Hardocp were so thrilled with it's performance. An athlon 650 will already beat a chip that Intel won't ship for a couple of months . I find that quite amusing." --- So...unless the Coppermine can out MHz the Athlon, (fat chance), the coppermine will go flopsky in the woods compared to the mighty Athlon. Looks like Intel is running out of crapola to pile on the snowball known as the P6 core... Jim