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To: Gary Ng who wrote (48562)	2/4/1999 8:23:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1571318

<Should they worry that? Didn't Jerry say that 3DNow would distinguish K6-2 from Celeron ?> It should be obvious even to the AMD apologists here that Jerry puts out a lot of bull. Sure, 3DNow will distinguish K6-2 from Celeron marketing-wise, but without 3DNow, K6-2 wouldn't even be close to Celeron. But from the way Jerry words things, he's trying to get people to believe that 3DNow actually gives the K6-2 the lead over Celeron. This is true if the only thing on your machine is Windows 95 and Quake II, but for all other games out there, even the lowly Celeron outperforms the K6-2. Remember that Jerry also said that the new Pentium III instructions will be useless until Microsoft releases DirectX 7.0, which won't come out until summertime. But just yesterday, Microsoft finished DirectX 6.1 which has full support for the new Pentium III instructions. Tenchusatsu