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To: Elmer who wrote (99201)	3/20/2000 11:53:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577025

RE:"Clock speed for clock speed, systems using Intel's high-end processors currently outperform those using AMD's Athlon chip But them we all knew that anyway didn't we...." Dells always bench pretty good. OTOH, do you or have you ever worked for or consulted Intel in respect to benchmarks? You're anon. so be honest. <G> Jim

To: Elmer who wrote (99201)	3/21/2000 12:12:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577025

Elmer, The Dells benchmarks....on closer examination. RE:"The Dell Dimension XPS B1000r includes 128MB RDRAM, a faster kind of memory than the SDRAM found in most desktop systems, including the 1-GHz Athlon systems reviewed here. The B1000r has a Maxtor 40GB hard disk and <<<gets an extra boost from a proprietary graphics card based on the nVidia GeForce 256 graphics chip set with 64MB DDR memory?twice that of any other system reviewed here">>> Now Elmer...why did the Dell bench a little faster...proprietary video card with 64MB DDR memory? Would that help? Jim