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To: Paul Engel who wrote (69192)	11/28/1998 3:10:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Engel, RE:" "Although the AMD K6-2 is 3% faster than the Intel Celeron processor in general business applications, when it comes to audio processing, the K6-2 system is half the speed of the Celeron processor!" Thanks for pointing this out. Intel's Celeron shows that not only is it a better value than AMD's K6-2 but that it is inherently better engineered than AMD's" --- Man you can take a simple statement and spin it into a full blown press release. You should take James Carvilles place...<G> ----- I play around with Audio files quite a bit and YES...the Celeron/Pentium II is the clear choice because audio encoding (Mpeg, ADPCM etc.)and file manipulation are very FPU intensive...probably the most FPU intensive apps I've used. Some sound editor software companies have said they are interested in optomizing for 3DNOW! but as of now the raw FPU power of the Celerons and Pentium IIs is the way to go for these apps...one good reason to get a Celeron...the main reason I'm now building a new Celeron system... At least until we see the K7...