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To: Process Boy who wrote (88883)	1/22/2000 12:30:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571420

PB - RE: "Despite the phony AMD benchmarks, a slug of independent head to head sku comparisons seem to indicate that Coppermine is competing fairly well with Athlon on performance." Yes, Cumine is competing well - WITH on-chip cache. Athlon will soon be getting on-chip cache, and it currently "competitive" with Cumine. Imagine what happens when the Athlon gets on-chip cache.

To: Process Boy who wrote (88883)	1/22/2000 12:30:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571420

PB, <Despite the phony AMD benchmarks> With all due respect, the only phony thing is lack of availability of CuMines at right speed grades. Chuck P.S.: Yeah, I expect that problem to go away soon. But, last I checked (15th Jan) Dell is still quoting 4 weeks for CuMine800 and Sharky can't find any above 733 either. Even the 733 avaialability with RDRAM is pretty darned thin.

To: Process Boy who wrote (88883)	1/22/2000 12:40:00 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571420

I wouldn't say CopperMine is competing with the same platform as Athlon.. Apples and Oranges too me. CopperMine using PC133 memory or RDRAM Athlon using PC100 memory. Once we start seeing some KX133 chipset benchmarks with PC133 memory we'll be getting closer to the same thing. Won't be to many FULL moons and we can compare integrated L2. I believe it was Ace's that showed a 17% increase in performance for a K6-2+ vs. a K6-2 in the same MB. It will be exciting to say the least. Milo