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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (45230)	1/9/1999 12:41:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580282

ANAND'S POOR BENCHMARKING Well, Anand's gaming benchmarks for the K6-2 (and, almost necessarily, the K6-3) remain incorrect. 206.132.42.114 His benchmarks are just WRONG. He claims he's using 3DNow, but I'm guessing he's not. 206.132.42.114 Here's the letter I sent to him a couple weeks ago (received no response): _________ Anand, I just ran demo1.dm2 timedemo at 800 x 600 (the resolution you used in part one of the K6-3 article--I assume you used this resolution in the second half of the article because it didn't say otherwise) on my K6-2 392 MHz (3.5 x 112 MHz) with a TNT (Creative Labs) card, 96 MB SDRAM. I got a score of 43.9 fps. I ran it a second time to double check and got 44.9 fps. All this was with 3DNow enabled. You show a K6-2 400 MHz getting a score of 30.8, and the K6-3 450 MHz with a score of 44.9. Something is amiss. Were you running the tests without 3DNow enabled? Were you running at a higher resolution? If so, I don't think your article made it quite clear. Kevin _________ Anand is now claiming to get only 15.5 fps in crusher.dm2 with a K6-2 400 MHz system at 800x600 resolution. MY COMPUTER (K6-2 392 MHz, 112 MHz FSB, 96 MB SDRAM) GIVES ME ABOUT 23 FPS IN CRUSHER AT 1024X768!!! The kid needs to run his benchmarks again, because something just ain't right. Kevin