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To: Paul Engel who wrote (25874)	4/14/1998 3:02:00 AM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Let's see, for 4X the price I can get 20% more performance. Doesn't sound like a very good deal! Of course, as far as systems go you only pay 2X as much for 20% more. Even that seems like a rip off. techweb.com techweb.com

To: Paul Engel who wrote (25874)	4/14/1998 10:10:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

RE:"21% increase in performance" Paul, Thanks for the pointer. I am a somewhat dubious about the testing methodology since the motherboard, disk and graphics cards were different between the 333 and 400 MHz tests. Specifically the fact that the AGP bus was running at twice the speed on the 400 MHz systems. Most of the speedup was due to the graphics intensive applications "Adobe PageMaker and CorelDraw." It will be interesting to see a true apples to apples comparison. It is clear however that Intel stands alone at the high end of performance. Scumbria