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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (77005)	10/26/1999 12:55:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575844

Summary of Anand's Coppermine test (Everything I write here is based on these benchmarks) Benchmark Athlon 700 Coppermine 733 Winstone 99 (Win 98) 31.3 31.2 SYSMark 98 (Win 98) 297 298 Q3 Demo 1 136.1 128.6 Expendable 81.1 78.5 Winstone 99 (Win NT) 39.5 40.2 High End Winstone 99 (Win NT) 35.1 32.1 SYSMark 98 (Win NT) 318 302 3D Studio MAX (Lower = Better) 45.1 45.6 To get this performance for the PIII 733 vs. the Athlon 700, one first has to find a WORKING i820 motherboard, to spend MORE money on a higher clock speed processor, and to spend MORE money to buy DRDRAM just to get a platform competitive with the MUCH LOWER priced Athlon platform. So what does one get with a 733/i820/DRDRAM Coppermine system vs. a 700/Irongate/PC100 Athlon system - HIGHER Cost Equal performance in Windows 98 Faster gaming performance, but ONLY with the more expensive GeForce card. With the TNT2, the Athlon system is faster (Check out Ace's front page and Sharky's test) Equal performance running bussines apps in Win NT SLOWER performance overall in Win NT Equal performance in 3D rendering Cost being no barrier, the Coppermine 733 platform with a NVidia GeForce video card is a better Home PC platform for gaming and overall Win 98 system performance. Cost being no barrier, the Athlon 700 platform is the superior platform for business apps which run Win NT. Cost being a barrier, the Athlon 700 platform is the better platform for a Home PC. Cost being a barrier, the Athlon 700 platform is the SUPERIOR platform for the Win NT operating system. The Athlon 700 faster than the PIII 700 running on the BX chipset at EVERY benchmark. The Athlon 700 platform is SUPERIOR to the PIII 700 platform in ALL ASPECTS. The Athlon platform's performance will only get better next year with a faster FSB and the ability to use faster RAM. The Uni-processor Athlon platform is primed to be the Ultimate Platform for the first half of 2000.

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (77005)	10/26/1999 1:28:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1575844

Cirrus, <So do you expect any i820/DRDRAM performance advantage to become more noticeable as faster PIIIs come out?> According to the performance guys that I know (actually, it's just one guy), this should be the case. On the other hand, part of their predictions are based on old fashioned crystal-ball techniques, since they do have to predict what the performance characteristics of future applications will be. (AGP is a good example of this. When Intel introduced AGP, they were hoping that the "execute" mode of AGP will be used more and more, and that local texture memory on graphics cards can be omitted except for the high-end. In reality, it turned out that AGP did help, but not in the way that Intel expected.) Tenchusatsu