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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (43710)	12/21/1998 8:57:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572888

Re: "However, those Quake II benchmark scores were much less impressive, showing the K6-3 at 450 MHz barely beating a Pentium II 450 MHz, even with those 3D-Now instructions. And Quake II is the best-case scenario for games which support 3D-Now." For some reason I can't get on to Anandtech riht now, but I'm willing to bet the reason the quake scores don't show a larger discrepency is that Anand used only one Voodoo 2 card instead of two in SLI configuration. One Voodoo card is fill rate limited with a PII-450 (and I expect a K6-3) so it will post about the same FPS for both processors. SLI Voodoo 2's and the CPU-intensive crusher benchmark at 1024x768 would provide the most meaningful benchmark, but it seems Anand doesn't know this. Kevin

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (43710)	12/21/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1572888

Tenchusatsu, re:<it's also too bad that no one can currently get their hands on one of these bad-boy K6-3 chips> It won't be long, Ten. A week and a half after Anand's K6-2-400 (CXT core) review, the K6-2-400 appeared at the chipmerchant.com (12/7/98), available for anyone to buy. No one had a K6-2 until a couple weeks before its release either. The Brotherhood of the CPU had a K6-400 (CXT core) review up on 11/4/98, so one might possibly argue that it could be as long as five weeks before thechipmerchant.com starts selling the K6-3. Petz