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To: Scumbria who wrote (78666)	4/13/1999 1:18:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, Re: 3. If you want to save money on the CPU and graphics card, buy a K6-2 system with 3DNow! which provides most of the same benefits for games as SSE. Please, you can stick to your opinions about AMD whatever you want but this seems to be a bit too much. Almost all game benchmark I saw indicates that no real games take advantage of 3DNow. You are, IMHO, giving false information. The same can be said for SSE too, at this moment. But the chances that future games will support SSE rather than 3DNow is much greater. Gary

To: Scumbria who wrote (78666)	4/13/1999 1:43:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

There you go again, Scumbria, posting without thinking. You said, "If you want to save money on the CPU and graphics card, buy a K6-2 system with 3DNow! which provides most of the same benefits for games as SSE." But Tom's Hardware Guide clearly shows that even for games with 3DNow support, even a Celeron 400 ($110) beats a K6-III 450 ($450): www4.tomshardware.com (This was with a Riva TNT card. A test with the not-yet-released Voodoo3 3500 shows the K6-III 450 about 1.3 fps faster than a Celeron 400, but that's still a very poor advantage.) Tenchusatsu