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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (23054)	1/18/1998 5:10:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Pravin, It is almost impossible to access the full pages on Anand Hardware Page without stalling until his new server is in place. Here is the direct link to the article you mentioned. anandtech.com Basically, Business Winstone97 is an IO benchmark. Even PII-333 has higher business Winstone97 rating than M2-166Mhz, users might still find that M2-166Mhz has faster responsing to their keyboard/mouse commands than PII-333 when the data/applications are cached in the RAM during to extra-fast L1-L2-RAM speeds from M2. Win95 is still a lousy OS. I am still encounting "out of resouces" or "no enough memory" errors from either 128MB or 96MB systems. However, it does have better "RAM cache" over Win31. Whenever the cache succeeds, there is no other x86 processors faster than M2. The problem on Cyrix is the marketing. They did not even bother to advertise M2 as the FASTEST internet CPU. :( Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (23054)	1/18/1998 5:29:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

I would not apologize towards Craig. According to Digital's Alpha technology, Craig's overclocked PII-300 system needs the 2MB L3 cache to bring up its memory speeds up to the levels of my M2-166Mhz on 83Mhz bus speed board. Up to this date, Intel does not have any plan to add L3 cache to its SLOT 1 yet. My M2-166Mhz could not be oc to 208Mhz reliably. However, it runs perfectly well at 200Mhz (66x3) on Asus SP97-V or PC-chip TXPro. I am ready to clock it over to 200Mhz once the first 100Mhz bus speed board is available. Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com