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To: kash johal who wrote (59728)	5/26/1999 11:04:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572099

Kash - RE: "Shame if they have a killer CPU but no software that can un on it." Yeah, AMD doesn't want to copy Intel's release of the PIII!!! ;) "The SPEC marks however should be quite stunning looking at the diskmark scores." Certain people have speculated that at the same clock speed and outfitted w/the same speed/size L2 cache, the K7 will easily surpass the Xeon's SpecFp95 score.

To: kash johal who wrote (59728)	5/26/1999 11:07:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572099

kash, Re: Also getting the L2 cache up to 1/2 speed seems critical to me. Do you think even Intel seems to be hitting this problem about L2 cache ? Gary

To: kash johal who wrote (59728)	5/27/1999 2:15:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1572099

Kash - Re: "I think Paul Engel had posted that the CPU power was in the 60 Watt range. I think his sources were pretty good on that one." Thank you. Remember how Scumbria dismissed that 60 watt estimate as way too high? Paul

To: kash johal who wrote (59728)	5/27/1999 10:45:00 AM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572099

Kash, Well there are a couple of things you should know about that unit. That was not a production BIOS.. that alone can (and have been told did) have a termendous impact on performance. Secondly that was only a 1/3 speed cache unit, which as you point out will make a big difference. Also there is good reason to believe that some features of the FPU on that model were disabled/had workarounds on them which significantly affected the performance. Regards, Steve