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To: Joe NYC who wrote (30313)	11/19/1998 6:54:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Jozef, re: "how many people will be willing to pay $500 for 25% performance increase .." For some time I've searched for an explanation as to why faster CPUs don't provide significantly faster benchmarks. From my experience and from reading Aanand, it might take a 600+MHz CPU to get a 25% improvement over today's 350-400MHz PC. If the hangup is memory, a PII/350 on a 100MHz bus should be a great deal faster than a PII/333 (it is not). High-end video cards do a lot for video benchmarks but very little for business applications. And when I upgraded to a faster hard drive, I barely noticed any difference. Where is the bottleneck? Craig