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To: Maxwell who wrote (43780)	12/22/1998 1:13:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572373

Maxwell - I hear you Fab 25 guys have a two week vacation until January 4 ! DO you get paid for the time off or does Jerry make you use up your Vacation time? Paul

To: Maxwell who wrote (43780)	12/22/1998 1:50:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572373

<Did you see the benchmark of K6-3 over PII or CeleronII? I thought Slot1 was supposed to be superior than the Super Socket 7? I guess poor Intel CPU hasn't taken advantage of the solt 1.> Yeah, I've seen the benchmarks, and I'm rather impressed, even if the motherboard had 2 MB of L3 cache on it. Now I wonder how well the K7 is going to perform, considering that it's L2 cache is off-chip and running at 1/2 to 1/3 of the processor clock speed. Sure, it's got that oversized L1 cache, but I wonder how much of a difference that will make considering its longer latency. But you know as well as I that Intel will be pushing the 3-D and high-end performance figures over the old boring Business Winstone from now on. Knowing that the K6-3 450 MHz is only marginally better than the Pentium II 450 MHz in Quake II, and knowing that Quake II is the ideal case for 3D-Now, I've got to wonder whether KNI can put Katmai ahead of K6-3 on KNI-enabled applications. (Yeah, I know, the same old questions apply, like KNI-software availability, etc.) 1999 will be an interesting year indeed. Tenchusatsu