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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (32985)	5/28/1998 5:01:00 PM
From: StockMan	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1570175

Jimmy, The benchmarks compared K6-2/100 with a PentiumII/66 and they were equivalent. Now consider the increase in cost of a 100Mhz socket7 board (which by the way is not stable for manufacturing yet), the PC100 memory cost.. L2 cache and the HIGH end graphics card etc.. and its a VERY EXPENSIVE specialized (most anyone can design an instruction set which optimizes 1 or 2 games) QuakeII machine. In fact if you were to take the K6-2/66 it would perform poorly against a pentiumII 300, which is now selling for $1499. That is why AMD has to sell the K6-2 (increased cost than the K6) cheap (BIG LOSSES). The K6-2 is a non-event until the 100Mhz board is stable, high end graphics is cheap and directx 6 and drivers are available (another 3-6 months). In the meantime the K6-2/66 will have to compete with the Celeron. Stockman