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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (42378)	11/29/1998 10:04:00 PM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572777

Jim, Re: "Yea boy...I do this every time... Who is Anand and ZD trying to kid?" BTW Jim, I tend to run about 3-4 applications at the same time (at work). These are typically Netscape, MSWord, an E-mail app, and PowerPoint. Most people in business run in this type of mode ... Obviously most "old guys" in Florida, don't. <ggg> Make it So, Yousef

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (42378)	11/29/1998 10:21:00 PM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572777

Jim , re. lost it I agree , he is making strange comments i.e. k6-2 400 price being kept under Celeron 300a , even the K6-2 350 is $125 and the Celeron 300a is $92 on Pricewatch . Does this guy have a clue ? Brian PS I wonder if these self professed tech experts who recommend buying a Celeron 300a and overclocking it to 450mhz will agree to honouring the warranty when Intel refuses to do so . It seem that as long as the chip runs for the period of their test they are satisfied , but the life of those chips subjected to such overclocking will be seriously shortened .

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (42378)	11/29/1998 11:03:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572777

Jim: Frankly I like the Winbench 3D Benchmark from AMD which shows that a K6-2-300 matches the PII-400MHz and a K6-2-333 blows away the PII-450. That benchmarks show the power of K6-2 in 3D ONLY and that is all it matters these days. I give Intel CPU a few % over K6-2 in 2D applications and Winstone 99 and take the 20%+ in 3D over PII. Maxwell

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (42378)	11/30/1998 3:04:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572777

Jim, Some people have been turning up the heat on Anand and he defends Winstone 99. I honestly think the guy has lost it... Some of Anand's explanations indicate that he doesn't have a very thorough understanding of his subject. His comment "the real benefit of write allocate is visible in writes to the write allocated cache line after the initial write allocate." is mostly incorrect. The real value of write allocate is that it increases the percentage of read hits. Cacheable data that is written (in a single processor system) will almost always be read back. If it is not read back, why did we bother to write it? Turning on write allocate can reduce the cache read miss percentage by as much as 20%. Scumbria