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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (27422)	6/15/1998 1:24:00 AM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 33344

The IBM 6x86MX PR333 is a great answer for anybody who is looking for workstation level applications performance on a budget. It is an adequate gaming CPU and an unstoppable business CPU. hardware.pairnet.com:80/reviews/ibmpr333/ Cyrix should position and advertise M2 as a CPU for businessmen!

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (27422)	6/15/1998 3:00:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 33344

RE:"What I really want to know is what does adding 256k of L2 cache to the K6-3 do for the cache on the motherboard. Make it L3? What is the advantage if any to this?" Paul, Adding additional cache will always cause some incremental performance improvement. In order to make the L3 worthwhile on a K6-3 system it will have to be at least 1MB. I'm guessing that the more common configuration for K6-3 systems will be with no L3. Even without L3 the performance should be considerably better than equivalent PII systems. Scumbria