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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (44083)	12/27/1998 8:41:00 AM
From: Joseph S. Lione	Respond to of 1572777

Kevin - re: "Or, if you want a system that outpeforms the best that Intel can offer, a K6-3 with 2(or more?) MB of L2 cache is much cheaper than a PII-450." Where can I buy such a system? Joe

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (44083)	12/28/1998 12:01:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1572777

Kevin - Re: "most super 7 boards have 1 meg of cache. Even with 512k of cache, Anand's tests show the K6-3 is a compelling upgrade path (as opposed to throwing away your CPU, mobo, etc, and buying Intel stuff) " You seem very worried, Kev. Yes, the K6-3 may find itself as King of the K6-2 replacement chips. But most boxmakers will drop support for it - since only the CPUs may have some demand. Don't forget - a K6-3 with 2 Meg L3 cache will probably cost as much as a new Katmai chip - or close enough to make the K6-3 irrelevant - especially since it can't run KNI. Too bad. Too little. Too, Too, Too, Too Late. Only 4 more shipping days left in 1998. Paul