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To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (74181)	3/11/2002 9:55:53 AM
From: rsi_boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

re: Before athlon came out the k6-2/3 both got beat out by celerons, not to mention the p3s. Not entirely true! There was a time when the K-6 3 (at 450) beat everything Intel had including the Xeon (then at 500mhz). Unfortunately, this only lasted about 2.5 months and coincidentally was also the time AMD was having all sorts of production problems and the K-6 3 was largely unavailable (annand had one but not many other people). When the K6-2 first came out, at 300 MHz (with 100MHZ fsb vs. p2 300's 66 MHz fsb) and with 3D NOW! It did very well, matching or beating the Pentium II in most benchmarks. Of course, past 300 MHz the k6-2 scaled pretty badly because of the onboard L2 cache stuck at FSB speed.