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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (32529)	5/8/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572681

Pravin, Even at $280, PII-300 is still not a good buy at all. Basically, PII-300 is the exact same chip as $183 PII-233 from 0.35u process. All the reports indicated that a good board, such as Abit BX6, could run PII-233 at 300Mhz on 100Mhz flawlessly. It is actually faster than the real PII-300 on 66Mhz due to the higher RAM speed from 100Mhz bus speed. At 300Mhz, PII generates lots of heat. The coming summer, lots of PII-300 system would become unstable because of overheat unless the case is open or equipped with 3 fans. I read a post saying that he uses NINE fans to cool down his PII system from overheat. In comparison, K6-300 is more attractive and cool to me to use with. One case fan and one tiny CPU fan would be enough to run K6-300 quietly. I hate excessive noise. You won't notice the system performance difference between PII-300 or K6-300 under Win95. Fuchi

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (32529)	5/8/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572681

Pravin, Wow. $260 for a 300 Mhz PII with 512 KB cache is not a bad deal at all. This is 1/8th of the $2000 price that they introduced it at last year. The lowest price of PII-266 has been dropped to $232 on Internet sales. As a PII-266 user, how you feel about the way screwed by Intel from their price drop to devalue your ownership at their will and mercy? Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com users.aol.com