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To: Paul Engel who wrote (60094)	6/1/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: Marco Polo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570976

You are being a bit childish with the name thing, but I guess no one ever accused you of being mature? Oh well, I'll respond to your posts of below-average intelligence out of a sense of respect for the mentally challenged. Where are your preliminary benchmarks? Or didja make those up? Just to make it even I think I'll address you as "Pee." You know, P as in short for Paul.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (60094)	6/1/1999 1:52:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1570976

Re: "Why do "preliminary" benchmarks show the Kflop 7 FPU slower than the K63 FPU and SLOWER than the Pentium /// by over 40% ?" The chip tested was not a "real" K7. 3dnow.net FullOn-3DNow!'s Fyodor was present when Bob from AMD stopped by Ace' Hardware IRC chat session last night. Here's what he was able to gather: hispeed: bob, how hard is it for an individual to get access to pre-release products for testing?? Bob_AMD: hispeed: One a select few OEMs get K7s. And among those only a very, very select few get real K7s. Bob_AMD: Well, actually by now there are many more real K7's out there. I'll let you figure out why. Grave: Bob_AMD: what's the status of the dresden plant? Bob_AMD Grave: Its there, and we are ramping it up. :o) 0.18 is on schedule so far. Of course, for all we know Bob_AMD is really Fuchi. Kevin

To: Paul Engel who wrote (60094)	6/1/1999 3:06:00 PM
From: Marco Polo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570976

"Especially when compared to the following floating-point intensive tests, the most likely explanation is an exception in the FPUMark program that doesn't take particularly to the K7." If you look at your benchmarks there, you'll see that in floating-point intensive tests, the K7 actually blows away the PIII and even the highly-expensive Xeon. So it's just the FPUMark test itself that is flawed, and that's a quote directly from the benchmarker himself. firingsquad.com Thanks, Elmer, for providing the link.