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To: Scumbria who wrote (56939)	10/7/2000 12:50:13 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 93625

I like winmag as much as the next guy, but why didn't they use any 1000 PIII instead of a 933 and why did they compare the GW with a 64mb card to the Dell with a 16mb graphics card? If dell doesn't have a dell 1000, I am sure cpq would send them one. The headline implies more than just comparing one machine to one machine. TIA Duke

To: Scumbria who wrote (56939)	10/7/2000 1:39:30 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 93625

Well, hold all my calls, I found this on the winmag website: Intel's 1GHz Pentium III has 256KB of full-speed, on-die Level 2 cache (in addition to 32KB of Level 1 cache), compared with 128KB of L1 and 512KB of off-die L2 cache in AMD's Athlon processor (both L1 caches are on-die, full-speed). You would expect, on this basis, for a 1GHz Pentium III-powered PC to be faster than a 1GHz Athlon powered one, and that proved to be the case-barely. The Dimension achieved a WinScore 5.0 mark of 137-which, in fact, makes it the fastest PC we've tested to date. Compaq's 1GHz Athlon-powered Presario 5900Z earned a 134 WinScore. This is enough to measure but not enough for a human being to detect, though our tests showed different strengths and weaknesses. The Dimension scored best on video, Word and Excel tests; the Presario did better on CPU, Photoshop/DeBabelizer, and AutoCAD benchmarks. So, I guess its sort of 134-137:142 for 1100, sort of. Roughly put, about 3% for the 1100, not considering price points, details, time of release, etc.