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To: Dan3 who wrote (27391)	2/4/2001 3:27:55 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Ads from Feb 4 Chicago Tribune b=Best Buy c=Circuit City u=CompUSA bto=Build to Order (shipping is not included) Note that some details (flat screen monitor, amount of memory, better printer, etc) means the relative value of these systems is not completely reflected below. All prices after $400 AOL rebate. Brand Chip speed Monitor Disk Plus Printer Price eMachines Celeron 633 15 10 Yes $69b eMacnines Celeron 633 17 10 DVD Yes $159c HP Celeron 766 15 30 RW Yes $579b HP Celeron 766 15 30 RW Yes $579u Compaq Duron 750 15 30 Yes $449b Compaq Duron 750 15 30 Yes $449u Compaq Duron 800 17 40 RW Yes $649c Compaq Duron 800 15 40 RW Yes $649b HP PIII 933 15 40 RW Yes $829u Compaq PIII 933 15 60 DVD RW Yes $899u HP Athlon 1100 17 40 DVD RW Yes $899c bto Compaq PIII 933 17 60 RW Yes $999b Compaq Athlon 1000 17 40 DVD RW No $1,079b bto Compaq Athlon 1100 17 60 DVD RW Yes $1,099c HP PIII 1000 15 60 DVD RW Yes $1,129u Compaq Athlon 1100 17 60 DVD RW Yes $1,199b HP P4 1300 17 60 DVD RW No $1,549b HP P4 1300 17 60 DVD RW Yes $1,599c HP P4 1400 15 60 DVD RW No $1,619u HP P4 1400 17 75 DVD RW No $1,669b bto Compaq P4 1400 17 60 DVD RW No $2,088u bto

To: Dan3 who wrote (27391)	2/4/2001 7:28:42 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 275872

Re: "AMD designed the Hammers to provide excellent performance in 32 bit mode, " Gee...just how fast are the Hamsters on 32 bit code? Go ahead - cite some virtu-simulations !

To: Dan3 who wrote (27391)	2/4/2001 7:32:03 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: "Intel designed Itanic/McKinley to provide good performance on non-existent software and fall flat on its face running anything actually available for several years - OOPS!" I'd say ITanium - even at 667 MHz - shows some excellent promise on existing 64 bit code: aceshardware.com "As you can see from the results, the 1 GHz Athlon and 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 are about equal, with the Athlon slightly ahead throughout. The Itanium dominates over both, however, which isn't entirely surprising considering this benchmark is unlikely to expose any weaknesses present in early IA-64 compilers. The Athlon was configured with SDRAM, but it's not indicated whether or not it is PC100 or PC133. The Pentium 4, as you know, uses dual-channel DRDRAM thanks to the i850 chipset. Lastly, the Itanium's memory interface is unknown, but is probably some kind of interleaved (4-way or more) SDRAM. "