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To: Scumbria who wrote (125972)	1/25/2001 3:02:34 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 186894

Tom Pabst tests P3 with DDR: tomshardware.com His conclusion: We shouldn't be too disappointed by the results we saw, although they show that there is hardly any justification for an upgrade from a PC133-platform to a DDR-platform for Pentium III. In fact, there is hardly any sensible justification for the purchase of a Pentium III processor in the first place anymore, because today AMD's Athlon processors outperform Pentium III at a significantly lower price point. This means that upgrading a Pentium III system on a budget can only lead to the conclusion to switch over to an AMD-platform. Pentium III was unable to take advantage of RDRAM and thus it hardly gains any performance with DDR-SDRAM as well. Instead of telling you that it would make sense to rather buy Pentium III plus Apollo Pro 266 and DDR memory once it meets the same price points as i815 and PC133 memory, I'd suggest to forget about getting a new Pentium III processor altogether. If you want excellent performance at a good price it's close to impossible getting around buying an AMD Athlon system. Joe