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To: Paul Engel who wrote (54184)	4/4/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: Daniel Shaffer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580439

PC Mag: Upbeat Review of K6-III This may be old news to those of you who seem to live in this discussion group (judging by the number of messages you've exchanged in the past 2 days). PC Magazine had a fairly positive review of several K6-III systems in its April 20 issue. To quote in part, "Regardless of its lack of strong floating-point performance, the K6-III is a tremendous bargain. At 450 Mhz, it sells for $220 less than the 500 Mhz Pentium III and $20 less than the 450 Mhz Pentium II." Also interesting is the following comment regarding Benchmark tests for the Compaq and CyberMax K6-III machines:: "Both PC's posted Winstone scores commparable to those of previously tested 500-Mhz Pentium III machines." Once there are parallel processor motherboards on the market for the K6-III, we may see some high end action for the simple reason that cost savings over comparable (even slightly faster) Pentium chips will be multiplied. For example, a server with 4 AMD K6-IIIs would be $880 cheaper to build than one with 500 Mhz Pentium IIIs. IMHO, AMD will probably repeat its roller coaster performance for the foreseeable future. Given Intel's high overhead costs, all of this price cutting is bound to hurt profits there as well.