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To: Scumbria who wrote (99890)	2/25/2000 3:59:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria - <Last year you were quite enthused by the poor Athlon benchmarks on Beta silicon from Firing Squad. This year you are doing the same with Cyrix III.> Why is VIA launching a processor and then allowing benchmarks on Beta Si? Isn't that kind of dumb? PB

To: Scumbria who wrote (99890)	2/25/2000 4:12:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

SCUMbria - re: "Last year you were quite enthused by the poor Athlon benchmarks on Beta silicon from Firing Squad. This year you are doing the same with Cyrix III. Do you really believe that the frame rate is 1/2 Celeron?" That's what the data says. Do you believe it? Do you care? Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (99890)	2/25/2000 4:24:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, <Do you really believe that the frame rate is 1/2 Celeron?> Wouldn't surprise me if this turns out to be the case, or even if "real production silicon" makes it to 2/3 Celeron. I think Via is gambling on the notion that buyers of sub-$800 computers don't care about the performance of 3D games. And to an extent, they're right. Of course, Via's poor FPU makes for very bad publicity. "Are you sure you want to sacrifice 3D and floating-point performance, not to mention reliability, just to save $50 on your PC, ma'am?" Tenchusatsu