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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (54240)	4/5/1999 1:30:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573850

Ten, Consider the return-on-investment, Scumbria. I would predict that adding that third level of cache can't really buy much more than 5% additional performance. I'm pretty sure that the performance analysis guys at Intel have looked at it and decided it wasn't worth the effort. Consider this: PII offers a 2% performance advantage over Celeron, yet sells at a 200% price premium (450 MHz PII sells for $450.) The only difference between PII and Celeron is that PII offers a larger (and slower) L2 cache. Scumbria