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To: Dan3 who wrote (76679)	10/24/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573075

Coppermine review Ace's Hardware has the first official Coppermine review. Not too many benchmarks because Johan says he didn't have much time with the system. Looks like it will be a MHz battle for performance crown in FPUMark and Winstone 99 (meaning whoever has higher MHz will be faster). In everything else tested the Athlon 700 beats Coppermine 733. The 733 falls flat on its ATC cache in the Stream benchmark... One thing to keep in mind is that the Coppermine 733 system is based on an i820 motherboard which no one in the world can purchase because Intel is so incompetent. Even when the i820 motherboards become available to purchase, Athlon 700 based PCs should easily beat Coppermine 733 based systems on a price/performance ratio. And if Coppermine 733 systems use i810E, the Athlon 700 should STILL be able to easily beat the Coppermine in price/performance, this time because of the Athlon's performance. So however this Coppermine 733/i820/DRDRAM system has done is basically all Intel can put out until the PIII-EB-ZXKUQ comes out, if such a thing is in the pipeline. The current Athlon system's performance is at the base. It will only get better with added features like the ability to use PC133 and DDR SDRAM, faster FSB, and AGP 4X. Coppermine has basically hit the performance ceiling with MHz being the ONLY thing pushing it. Maybe a greater variety of benchmarks will be able to make Coppermine look better. EDIT - Here's the link I forgot to give- aceshardware.com