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To: StockMan who wrote (32528)	5/8/1998 9:38:00 PM
From: Adrian Wu	Respond to of 1572751

Stockman: Given the lack of L2 cache on the K6-3D, and the cost of expensive external L2 cache, and the expensive socket 7 100Mhz motherboards, heck the k6-3D will have to be sold for considerably less to meet the price/performance of the celeron and pentiumII. I just bought the Epox MVP3E-M for $130 (In Hong Kong). It has 1MB of L2 cache, 3 DIMM slots, 4 PCI, 2 ISA and 1 AGP. Essentially, it has everything the Asus P2B (The most highly regarded slot 1 board) has, but the Asus costs $190. I am overclocking a K6-266 to 100x3 right now, with Samsung PC100 modules. I will upgrade to the K6-2 once this is available, and the K6 will be used to upgrade another machine. The K6-2 will have equivalent business app performance as the PII as measured by Winstone 98 (See Anandtech evaluation). It will have superior gaming performance for Direct X and OpenGL-based games. It will be much cheaper to produce (Smaller die, no expensive cartridge, cheaper logic chipset). BTW, the Intel BX chipset costs $65 each; the MVP3 costs $29 each (according to VIA). Adrian