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To: Bryan Stephens who wrote (22145)	12/18/1997 11:46:00 AM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 33344

Bryan, I could understand the performance edge of SDRAM over EDO/FP for GX family. However, GX/GXm family was designed to compete in the price/cost sensitive section. Why dopped off EDO which would have more suppliers or existing inventory/goods than SDRAM? Unless, MediaGXm is 128-bit data path as MXi. Then, it would really surprise me. Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com

To: Bryan Stephens who wrote (22145)	12/18/1997 5:36:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

In order to understand the performance difference between SDRAM and EDO on Cyrix processors, I used the following components to run Business Winstone97 under Win95: CPU: Cyrix 6x86MX-PR166 (66x2) oc to 166Mhz (83x2) Motherboard: PC-Chip TXPro M560 512K PB cache which could be disabled from CMOS. With Ali bus master driver. Hard Drive: IBM DHEA 6.4GB 512K cache Video Card: Maxtrox Mystique 220 4MB 1024x768x256 OS: Win95 upgrade version M2-166Mhz (83x2) ===================== Business Winstone97 512K cache with 32MB EDO 53.0 L2 cache disabled with 32MB EDO 48.6 L2 cache disabled with 32MB SDRAM 50.5 Based on these benchmark results, MediaGXm-233Mhz with SDRAM might outperform the cacheless PII-266 with everyday applications if Cyrix team added some performance twists towards GXm. If this holds true, we will be doing very well with MediaGXm for '98. Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com