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To: Richard Wang who wrote (57002)	5/2/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1573697

Tom got a hold of some pre-release samples of the Klamath (Pentium II .35u) and put the benchmarks on his website. He even went so far as to knock the chips performance. When the release version was benched it was obvious that it was quite a bit faster than the samples Tom got. Anything we see up to the K7 release has to be viewed with skepticism. Even then, the first K7s will not be nearly as fast as they will be in a few months. You have to watch the benchmarks too. There may be certain ones where the Pentium III outperforms the K7. This could be because the test doesn't utilize all the K7 FPU pipes. Some of these benchmarks are miximized to Intel chips as well. Remember how Intel got the i740 to look fast when it is just average. 3Dwinbench if I recall. Jim