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To: Paul Engel who wrote (43898)	12/23/1998 12:39:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573954

Paul, The one set of benchmarks used NO KATMAI-SPECIFIC software. It should still give you some indication of performance if you don't care about Katmai specific (or 3Dnow specific) software. There is a good reason to keep Celeron to 400 MHz or below, since it could outperform Katmai, even with FSB at half the speed of Katmai. Joe

To: Paul Engel who wrote (43898)	12/23/1998 12:59:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1573954

Re: "Of course. The one set of benchmarks used NO KATMAI-SPECIFIC software.... They were the same as the K6 - remember?" That's why I said just check out the PII benchmarks. Of course, Katmai is supposed to have extra L1 cache, too, which the K6-2 didn't have compared to the K6. But I guess the extra L1 (assuming it was there) didn't help much. By the way, weren't you the one trying to convince me how great the transformation benchmark was for Katmai versus PII--the benchmark that turned out to be a typo? Now you seem to have completely accepted that there's no performance difference between the two according to those benchmarks. Kevin