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To: Paul Engel who wrote (77374)	10/27/1999 3:43:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573215

Paul, You should have read the fine print on that page "The Intel CPU was running at a slightly higher clock rate, which indicates the Athlon FPU is a bit better. Finally, some of the differences were no doubt due to the roughly 5 percent clock rate difference. Still, all of it indicates the Athlon core may not be that much better than the Pentium III, as previously thought. The 32-bit game scores were somewhat inconclusive, with the Pentium III showing small, but not statistically significant, differences. What seems to have happened is that Intel has come from behind and achieved parity with AMD. This is no doubt a relief to Intel, but it's still very significant that Athlon can stand up to Intel's latest and greatest and hold its own. Once AMD shrinks Athlon to 0.18 micron, AMD may once again have the opportunity to pull ahead. As before, AMD's biggest Achilles' heel continues to be the motherboard and core-logic chipset problems. " Intel came from behind......came from behind? The 5% faster clock means the AMD is still a bit better....a bit better? And this is on new Intel mobos and old AMD mobos wait until AMD has their 133M bus going. Bill

To: Paul Engel who wrote (77374)	10/27/1999 3:52:00 PM
From: Michael DaKota	Respond to of 1573215

re :"I would have liked to run the AMD tests on a shipping off-the-shelf motherboard, but neither the FIC or Asus motherboards could complete all the benchmark tests." as I replied before to someone else commenting about those results, the people from gamespot are appearently INEPT at testing modern hardware. There scores in each and everyone game/benchmark are miles under those of 10 others , and now this. Appearently they have either fiddeld around in the bios, or installed the wrong drivers (maybe NO drivers at all). Nontheless, its obvious that they have no clue what they are doing there as far as athlon related products is concerned. FHWL, Michael. Its funny though that the intallabees hold onto this SINGLE review like its their life...makes me laugh a bit when I look at 10 others where I see the reverse being proven. And what can there be wrongly installed in the 820 boards? Very little, its all proven intel stuff, right?