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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (50756)	2/23/1999 7:18:00 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

Tenchusatsu, Re: <I already admitted that the K6-3 will be AMD's first serious contender in the business market segment. It provides a real alternative to the Pentium II, while the Pentium II still lives, of course. > The only thing we use PCs for in our office is word and X-Window to get to the real machines. In our case, we have a couple of X86 servers, but the vast majority of real work is on HP-UX. The CONNECTION is the only thing that counts, THE NETWORK is the only thing that counts, except for gaming. For most home users, the MODEM is the only thing that counts. But that is only my office, and my opinion, and I don't play games very often. tgptndr

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (50756)	2/23/1999 7:34:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572208

Tench, I think you need to re-evaluate the k-3 once anand's benchmarks are completed. It will also be interesting to compare with 2M L-3 caches - I understand you get anothe 4% improvement from 1M caches. In addition the effect of increased RAM is an important point. I would like to see the benchmarks with 128Mb and 256Mb of RAM. FYI, we have a PU-450 running with 1Gb or RAM here for some simulation work, so people are using large RAMS out there. Except for Gamers the PIII is the highest performing CPU. When you take the price into account it seems to be a real winner to me. The key for AMD is not wether it's a great CPU of course. The key is wether they can yield and ship enough. Based on the price/performance it should sell extremely well into the business and NT markets. It would also be interesting to compare the KIII with 2Mb L3 cache with the XEONS in server applications - I suspect the performance will be none too shabby! Regards, Kash.