On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote: > > So sprach Arcana am Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:50:29PM -0400: > > as well as the Pentium III at a similar clock speed. The Athlon can't match > > Intel's PIII in some instances (usually dealing with floating-point and > > graphics) so the Duron, basically being the Athlon with a lot less L2 cache > > Hmm? Do you know that first hand, or did you just read it somewhere? > Because I read in a mag, that especially in floating point math the Athlon > beats a Pentium III. And this was so astonishing, because FP were always > AMDs week side. > > Alexander Skwar > -- > Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.dp.ath.cx > Sichere Mail? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] fuer GnuPG Keys > ICQ: 7328191 > > Same here, everything I remember reading about the Athlon the first few months it hit, said it outperformed the PIII in every aspect. My system runs a K63-400 and I love it as much as I do my operating system!! Hope to upgrade to an Athlon one day soon. -- Roland Hightower [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kd5rh.net icq# 2981212 Linux-Mandrake 7.1 Registered Linux user# 183785
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