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To: 5dave22 who wrote (109591)	5/6/2000 4:17:00 PM
From: Mani1	Respond to of 1577883

Check this out! After seeing the side by side comparison that Gateway had with equally configured Athlon 750 and PIII 700 I emailed them and asked which one is faster. Here is what I got back. WOW! It is almost like the rep is either working for AMD or at least a "AMDroid". LOL ********************************************************** Hello Mani, AMD Athlon is a 7th generation and Intel P111 is a 4-year-old 6th generation. AMD Athlon has a 200MHz (scalable to 400MHz) and Intel P111 has a 100MHz (133 MHz coming) front side bus. AMD Athlon has L1=128 KB L2=512KB (scalable to 8 MB) the Intel P111 has L1=32KB L2=512 KB cache. The floating-point unit is superscalar for the AMS Athlon and Single execution for the PIII. AMD Athlon has an enhanced 3Dnow while PIII has SSE, missing 5 DSP commands. - Corina Chacon Internet Sales Support Specialist Gateway.com, LP Original message follows: ------------------------- sales@gateway.com Primary e-mail address: ********* Secondary e-mail address: Customer Name: Mani Ahmadi Customer Phone: ********** Client ID: Order Number: Purchase Call Number: - Customer Name: Mani Ahmadi Customer Type: Home/Home Office Client MESSAGE: I notice that Select 750 (Athlon) and performance 700 (PIII) are the same price, which one is a faster computer. Which chip is faster Athlon or PIII?