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To: DRBES who wrote (75501)	10/14/1999 12:10:00 PM
From: kash johal	Respond to of 1572945

drbes, Re"thresh review" I notice that none of the "regular" Intel boys is pouring cold water on it. So for the record, this is early and we have seen that drivers can make a huge difference. In addition these folks seem to have tested on an 810e board. And the results for games must have been so bad they didn't even bother reviewing the "doommarks". Perhaps the new superfast cache needs some kind of bios upgrade etc to really fly. Having said that the benchmarks that have filtered out so far seem to be universally poor relative to a similarly clocked Athlon. Seems to me the Cumine is kind of like the k6-3 upgrade from K6-2. Some great benchmarks due to fast cache but will be lacking in "doommarks" due to 6th generation core/fpu vs Athlon. Frankly if this is the case the design will be dud as far as the gaming community is concerned. However its saving grace may well be its super low manufacturing cost coupled with clock scalability - unlike the K6-3 in those areas. regards, Kash