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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (50775)	2/23/1999 8:36:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572209

Tench, Re: Toms benchmarks I think he ran his benchmarks with zero cache not 1Mb. He then normalized everything to his zero cache as 100% and 2Mb gives 108%. The other issue is when he talks about a certain board at 512K giving same results as another boards with 2Mb. Jeez perhaps he should have looked at his setup as well. Anyway it seems to me the benchmarks are very close such that the specific MB and Graphics card and drivers make a fair difference. It seems to me that the benchmarks will become a tad clearer over time. Hell lets wait to see what Intels benchmarks say on friday. However I do concede his point that for 3d tasks that most of the support for AMD sucks (outside of gaming environment) and that the KNI support will build rapidly for Intel due to marketing muscle. The real issue is wether corporations care, it may well be that most corporate users will be happy with buying lower cost Celery's and PII's rather than PIII. My advice if you are looking to buy into AMD is that friday may be a good day as it will probably dip under the PIII firestorm. All ze best, Regards, Kash