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To: StockMan who wrote (37052)	9/15/1998 7:35:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572616

Stockman: << K6-2-350 selling for $30 more than Celeron-333, and is less performant than the 333. Who does AMD think its fooling by making huge margins on its 350. The poor consumer of course.>> What basis do you make such conclusion? Overclocked CeleronA 333 or CeleronA-333 at 66MHz bus speed? K6-2-350 beats CeleronA-333 in Business Winstone98 under Windows98. Under 3DNOW games K6-2 blows away CeleronA away. K6-2-350 blows away CeleronA in 3D Winbench DirectX 6.0. Like I said many times as better 3DNOW drivers are released K6-2 will get up to 50% improvement in performance. It wouldn't do a damn thing to the CeleronA. processor.org It is too bad that Intel has to double the die size over AMD K6-2 and got to slot1 but yet to achieve AMD 3D performance. For K6-2-350 to be $30 more than CeleronA-333 is dirt cheap. Who does Intel think they are fooling by making huge margins on its PII? The poor consumer of course. Maxwell

To: StockMan who wrote (37052)	9/15/1998 8:24:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572616

S, re:<K6-2-350 selling for $30 more than Celeron-333, and is less performant than the 333> Actually, Celeron 333A Winbench98=26.3, K6-2-333 Winbench98=26.2, but the K6-2-333 with fan is selling for $156.50 vs. $229.80, a 32% discount. (http://www.thechipmerchant.com) Benchmarks at tomshardware.com The faster K6-2-350 chip (Winbench98=27.2) with fan is $239.50, less than $10 more (4%) than the 333A, not $30 more as you claim. As Maxwell pointed out in another post, all these Celeron chips look sick in comparison to AMD in any 3D games like Quake II, Incoming, Unreal, Trespasser Jurassic Park, Baseball 3D, Ares Risin, etc. Petz