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To: Elmer who wrote (43967)	12/24/1998 12:51:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574491

Elmer - RE: "If the K7 numbers don't improve under NT, and the Katmai's numbers surely will, then the K7 will have a hard time beating Katmai, clock for clock, and I think the Katmai will run away from the K7 in frequency, at least on .18u." Why do you keep refering to NT when there were no Katmai and K7 benchmarks run on NT? No conclusions can be made about NT performance. RE: "However I don't think those numbers posted are indicative of the K7's true potential. I expect it to be a bit faster when introduced. " An AMD employee posted this at another board - "All I have to say is that if the results of the K7 in the "Katmai vs K7 review" were not leaked from my part of AMD if that is true, then the scores are not the latest or fastest. It's so early that some people have K7's running at suboptimal performance and have no idea what the hell they are doing. I wouldn't base any opinions until we release official numbers or it comes from Toms hardware guide." re: "You're wrong about the AGP port (not a bus). The current version runs at 133Mhz and once the 133mhz FSB camino chipset is here the AGP will run at 266mhz." Whoa, that is fast. Is this the speed the video card interacts with the rest of the system or just the system RAM? What's the point of a fast AGP port if the rest of the system communicates at half that rate? Just for the record, I never refered to AGP as a "bus". Since I didn't actually know what the term was I took the safe route and refered to the card.