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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (46799)	1/20/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1572613

Cringe - Re: "but on paper the K7 looks superior to anything Intel offers. " I suggest you try plugging that paper into a Slot A socket/motherboard and let us all know how fast that "paper" runs. Paul

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (46799)	1/20/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1572613

The K7 will have good performance because it has a large L1 cache and it runs at a high clock rate. The floating point units will likely be better than anything Intel has, as well. Scumbria

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (46799)	1/20/1999 10:43:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572613

Re: "Yeah, yeah, no one wants to see this written, but on paper the K7 looks superior to anything Intel offers." Just to test out your theory, I opened my 450mhz Celeron system here and replaced the Celeron with a piece of paper with "K7" written on it. No matter how I changed the jumpers and switches, it refused to boot. I am beginning to suspect it is not the motherboard... In conclusion, I am not able to confirm those claims of superior paper performance. EP

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (46799)	1/21/1999 2:40:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572613

<Did the K6 look great on paper compared to Intel's PPro and PMMX?> Yes. The K6 on paper had a stronger integer execution engine than the P6 core, double the L1 cache, and a very hefty branch prediction engine. It's FPU wasn't expected to be strong, but at the time, people didn't think a powerful FPU was necessary. Even Tom Uberclockermeister predicted that the K6 will be faster than the Pentium II at the same clock speed. (See tomshardware.com However, this was due in part to Tom's rather negative review of a pre-production Pentium II at the time. I don't know what Microprocessor Report said about the K6, though. Tenchusatsu