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To: Joe NYC who wrote (26243)	4/27/1998 1:36:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 33344

Joe - Re: "Does Cyrix's PR300 6x86 Really Measure Up?" The answer is .... Not very Well. Form that article: techweb.com "For one thing, performance-at least in this early beta unit, which had an early sample of the PR300 chip. The ProMax 4 managed a WinScore of only 123. That's better than our Dell Dimension XPS M233s reference system, but it's lower than some other 233MHz Pentium II systems, such as the Gateway 2000 G6-233 or the Dell Dimension XPS D233. The slowest 300MHz Pentium II we've tested, the NEC PowerMate Enterprise 8000 Pentium II 300MHz, still clocked a 134 WinScore-11 points higher than the ProMax 4. And the 300MHz Pentium II TigerDirect Tiger GT-300 (which carries an $1,849 price tag) has a 151 WinScore-28 points higher than the ProMax 4." "We've reported in the past that the 6x86MX chip's weakest areas of performance lie in straight computational tasks, where the chip's lower clock speed (the PR300 chip actually runs at 250MHz) comes into play; that was certainly the case with the ProMax 4. Its benchmarks were weakest on raw CPU performance and in our multimedia and AutoCAD tests." {=======================} A day late and a few Winstones short! Paul