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To: Process Boy who wrote (77330)	10/27/1999 10:08:00 AM
From: Michael DaKota	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583396

seems pretty obvious to me , pb. I have seen various hardware sites make the mistake NOT to install and download AMD's latest AGP miniport driver. The performance increase gotten out of this is substantial, and would account for a lot of the different results floating around . I can say pretty sure tough that K7 is superior in games , IF the system is set up correctly . (i.e. install the latest AGP miniport driver:) Games are highly FPU dependant, and FPU is what K7 is right ahead in, weather its xeon, p3 or coppermine. Integer I think the coppermine is a pretty good cpu, better than athlon is right now, (the 256 kb fullspeed l2 can take credit for that), and a selective group of benchmarks show that SSE is right on par with 3dnow. For instance quake3, the scores are nearly identical there, and quake3 is optimized for both SSE & 3dnow. Games not optimized for either SIMD instructions will mostly run better on athlon based systems, is the general trend (and personal experience) . FHWL, michael.