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To: Maxwell who wrote (6356)	5/28/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Who said that socket 7 isn't good enough? As a matter of fact, the current Super Socket 7 1MB (or more) cache board is a better investment than SLOT 1 board. The users of PII SLOT 1 board will be limited to the tinny 512K L2 cache. However, these smarter Super Socket 7 board users will have 3 levels of cache under their power when AMD release K2-3. They could have 64K L1 cache @core speed 256K L2 cache @core speed 1MB (2MB) L3 cache @100~133Mhz The advantage of Super Socket 7 board over SLOT1 is just that simple. The only question is if AMD is capable to deliver this K6-3 as promised? Fuchi

To: Maxwell who wrote (6356)	5/28/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Maxell, Re: K6-2-300 is selling for $281 and is equivalent to PII-400 Yes. When you run 3D Winbench 98 using DirectX6 and a 3DNow! optimized driver. The question is, do you purchase a system just to run 3D Winbench 98 to realize your saving ? Based on Tom's benchmark, it is more fair to say that K6-2 is now on par with same clock speed PII when running 3D games(provided that the 3D game you run is optimized for 3DNow!, either their own engine or through DirectX). Go to AMD's site and check which game vendor is behind this. The most noticeable one is Quake II. So if you want to compare the price, it is more like K6-2-300 vs PII 300/333. According to Tom's(again) latest Intel roadmap, PII300/333 will be selling for 310/420 by June 7 and 210/320 by July 28. Gary

To: Maxwell who wrote (6356)	6/8/1998 10:12:00 PM
From: Harve Wolfe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Maxwell, I find myself a disappointed computer shopper and AMD stockholder this evening. Today I called CyberMax, credit card in hand, ready to buy the "k6-2 3D 300","hometheatre" listed on their website. Much to my dismay I was told the system was in "testing" and wouldn't really be on the market for another month. I could advance order, but they couldn't guarantee I'd be delivered with a 100mhz bus or any k6-2 system at all. What gives is this thing really on the market or is it all smoke and mirrors? Could this be one of the big reasons why the stock has tanked with promising new product coming to market? It really doesn't have that product on the market? Harve