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To: Paul Engel who wrote (56348)	4/25/1999 9:52:00 PM
From: Mani1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571302

Paul, Re <<As far as I know, 450 MHz Kmart 63 PCs STILL are not available !>> Yes they are. From Compaq and Cybermax. Also at least in San Diego, lots of little box makers also have those PC's. Of course the volume is limited, I am sure. Mani

To: Paul Engel who wrote (56348)	4/25/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571302

Re: "he received a "loaded & stacked" machine from AMD sporting a 450 MHz Kmart 63 and 2 MegaBytes L3 cache in early December, tested it and posted the benchmarks in mid-December." Paul, you know that is horsesh*t yet you ontinue to post it. How do you expect anyone to believe anything you post if you insist on continuing to lie about this? anandtech.com anandtech.com The test system had a Matrox G200 (the TNT is/was a better card); a WDC Caviar AC35100 hard drive--far from the top of the line, considering my desktop has one and I bought it in September of 1997; only one Voodoo 2 card; only 64 mb of ram. The only "souped up" aspect of the system was 2 mb of L3 cache, which costs about $10 more than a 1 mb board, and accounted for only a 3% performance difference under Winstone 98. Even if AMD did send Anand the machine that he tested (which I find VERY hard to believe--in fact, I doubt he even got the engineering sample of the chip direct from AMD), that machine was far from "loaded and stacked." Kevin