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To: Maxwell who wrote (33005)	5/29/1998 12:14:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570913

Maxell, Re: Why PII 300 ? 2) K6-2 IS CHEAPER! K6-2-300 OUTPERFORMS PII-300 by at least 10% on 3D Winstone. K6-2-300 is less than 1% slower than the PII-400. As I said real life application benchmark(Quake II for that matter) shows equivalent performance and 281 vs 320(210) does not show any price advantage IMO. 3) People of socket 7 can upgrade Pentium to K6-2 without buying a MB. You mean every existing S7 user can just plug K6-2 into their MB and get the demonstrated performance gain ? That doen't seems to be the case mentioned on AMD's site. Anyone have a definite clue about this ? 4) MB of socket 7 is about $50-$70 cheaper than slot 1 MB. SS7 or S7 ? In my area, SS7 is selling around the same price as LX board(less than $10 difference). The bottom line is that the performance improvement depends on how clever the programmers write the code I am wondering why Quake II's and Incoming's programmer cannot tune their program as good as Microsoft. Are Microsoft's programmer smarter or DirectX6 is a better 3D engine ? Gary

To: Maxwell who wrote (33005)	5/29/1998 2:10:00 AM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570913

Maxwell, re:The moral of this story is that there is NO NEED TO GO TO SLOT1. Intel is just making an excuse to rape the consumers and to lock competitors out. No wonder the DOJ is after Intel. Socket 7 is just AS GOOD AND EVEN BETTER. AMD has proven so. Give us a break..Everyone knows Socket 7 is technically limited..even NSM CEO says so. Why don't you take off your Jerry-colored glasses and look out about a year or so. I guess there is NO NEED TO GO TO SLOT A either using your logic <ggg>. joey