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To: Petz who wrote (43844)	12/22/1998 1:58:00 PM
From: Scot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586578

Petz and Thread: Sharkyextreme has posted their weekly round up of cpu street/mail-order prices here: sharkyextreme.com In addition they had a few words on K6-3 availability: sharkyextreme.com <Which CPU? There have never been as many powerful CPUs on the market for under $250 at one time as there are right now. If you're planning on upgrading soon, you really can't go wrong with any of the following CPU choices if you're looking for a good price to performance ratio: Intel Celeron 300 A: $77 Intel Celeron 333 A: $97 AMD K6-2 350: $114 Intel P2-333: $187 Intel P2-350: $210 AMD K6-2 400: $230 The above list is fairly impressive, particularly when the addition of a $199 Voodoo2 SLI rig to the PCs powered by the CPUs above will net 45+ frames per second in most current games on the market. If you're willing to spend a little bit more on your next CPU choice, these models might best serve you: Intel P2-400: $315 AMD K6-3 400: $300 - $350 estimated The Intel P2-400 obviously needs no introduction, but the AMD K6-3 400 might cause a few readers to scratch the old melon in doubt. Fear not, as SharkyExtreme will be bringing Part 1 of our first K6-3 400 review to readers sometime this week. There aren't many of these prototypes floating around but we managed to snag one, and the test results are fairly positive so far. When AMD will actually ship the K6-3 remains to be seen next year, but the same contact that's provided SharkyExtreme with the press evaluation K6-3 400 CPU has indicated that the date is now mid to late February 99. (This coincides with the launch of the very expensive Intel Katmai CPUs, which is no coincedence on AMD's part folks.) Look to Wednesday or Thursday of this week for the full SharkyExtreme K6-3 400 article. (I promise this time, dammit!)> -Scot