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To: Elmer who wrote (51414)	3/2/1999 1:29:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571707

Elmer - RE: "Yes that's right, but in an act of desperation they could have used a under clocked standard Aplha chipset with no L2 Cache. That would allow them to run a demo of Godzilla but not much more." Since you love facts, I thought I would clear a few things up. "AMD had two demo rooms. In the first room I could inspect the first Slot A motherboard with AMD's own chipset and K7 itself. The K7 was equipped with 512 kB of L2 cache, running at 1/3 of the CPU core speed, thus 500 MHz / 3 = 166 Mhz. There was of course a working K7-system in that room too, which ran a mixture of Winstone98 and 3D games at really high speed. I could not see any benchmark numbers, but the benchmark part ran faster than anything I've seen yet, definitely faster than a Pentium II 504." tomshardware.com