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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (43460)	6/5/2000 5:39:00 PM
From: Stuart Steele	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Message #43460 from Jdaasoc at Jun 5, 2000 4:41 PM ET Gene: If I believe the the Photoshop benchmark, Intel is hosed. AMD is about 30% faster than Intel's SDRAM or 820 RDRAM solution. amd.com Intel's best benchmarks for Photoshop were with 840 chipset and RDRAM not listed by AMD. 840 chipset solution was about 30% faster than a BX solution using SDRAM @ 733 Mhz. I can't repost Intel's benchmark data since Intel pulled it down for whatever reason but if you will look back at one of my posts from 7-8 months ago the link to Intel's site was there. If AMD is able to get comparable speed to Intel's 840 chipset with dual channel RDRAM performance just by adding L2 cache, Intel has to respond with newer and more importantly cheaper technology ASAP. I have yet to see anything from Intel execpt for Willimette that would appear to beat this AMD offering. I expect that 815 chipsets using Coppermine processors, tweaked with PC133 CL2+ SDRAM, will narrow this gap significantly. Where does that leave RDRAM for next 3-4 months. Waiting for their desktop memory train to come in like they have been since June 98. I noticed just today that Dell is not offering any of their business computers in the Optiplex lineup with RDRAM. john<<< Take a look Dell has them on the site and they never left. Stuart dell.com

To: Jdaasoc who wrote (43460)	6/5/2000 5:48:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

John, <If I believe the the Photoshop benchmark, Intel is hosed. AMD is about 30% faster than Intel's SDRAM or 820 RDRAM solution.> Well, those benchmarks are coming straight out of AMD's own web site. I hope you took those results with a grain of salt. Meanwhile, you might want to check out these links for third-party reviews of AMD's Thunderbird: tomshardware.com anandtech.com sharkyextreme.com The general consensus is that while the new Thunderbird is faster than the current Athlon, it is by no means a Pentium III killer. Tenchusatsu