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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (42767)	12/4/1998 2:54:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572655

<On the other hand, AMD hasn't learned yet that they can get a great deal of free press by feeding their latest chips to these guys. So all Anand got was an engineering sample. No wonder he's biased toward Intel...he may be on their gravy train of chips. So if anyone close to AMD is reading this, why in the heck didn't Anand get a better K6-2-400????> Cynically speaking, maybe AMD doesn't have a "better" K6-2 400? After all, I'm sure that AMD marketing embraces these guys much more than Intel does. Look at Tom, who absolutely nuts over the K7. You don't think this happened without AMD actively seducing him, do you? Tenchusatsu

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (42767)	12/4/1998 4:44:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572655

Jim, I listened to Anand's Comdex Report video from his website in which he makes a passing comment on the K6-2-400, something like "its no Pentium 450." Still, I don't think he's dishonest, just misinformed and I expect his opinion will slowly change. BTW, there's a reason why the P2-450 is hardly any faster than the P2-400. Apparently the 450's cache is interleaved two ways and the 400's is interleaved four ways, resulting in higher performance. In fact, an overclocked 300 (if you can get it to work reliably) will outperform a 450. You have to take any 450 Pentium benchmarks you see posted with a grain of salt, because nobody likes to shell out >$500 for a chip. Petz