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To: Dan3 who wrote (114735)6/7/2000 12:25:00 AM
From: Charles R  Respond to of 1576312
 
<Considering that problems with adding L2 cache to the K6 just about destroyed the company, I also am not at all disappointed that AMD was cautious when it added L2 to the Athlon.>

Outside of this thread very few people care if the L2 is 11 clock cycles or 7. IPC is almost irrelevant to this market (unless it is really atrocious) - being a a couple of speed grades will wash out all sins.