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To: Scumbria who wrote (47687)	1/28/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572159

Seems to me that Tony mis-stated. The only time the Celeron out paced the K6-3 as on FPU extensive stuff when 3DNow was not enabled. Plain and simple, The P-II core slings a more powerful FPU than the K6 core. We all know this, we all have known this. Intel has ridden this line od FPU hype for a long time. The K6-3 won't address it but the K7 damn sure will. Until then, Intel gets to brag on the benchmarks that use a lot of floating point calculations where as the K6 relies on 3DNOW to make up the difference.

To: Scumbria who wrote (47687)	1/28/1999 6:54:00 PM
From: Jean M. Gauthier	Respond to of 1572159

Change of subject about Celeon vs K6-3... I read somewhere that Celeron sales are NOT as high and that there is spare inventory floating around.. <g> Of course, that means INTEL is selling every PII & Xeon it can make.. Maybe the low-end is not as powerful this year as people thought, and they WANT PC100 RAM, 100 Mhz I/O subsystems and therefore command full PP (soon PIII) prices... Take care Jean