Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 11:23:22 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 11:19:58, Keith Conary wrote: >On March 23, 2000 at 08:41:04, Peter Skinner wrote: > > >> >>So thus it would still be my conclusion that the AMD is great for performance in >>some areas, but surely will never out perform an Intel processor when dealing >>with high scale rendering. > > >There is still the possibility that your system is flawed either by drivers or >compatible components used with your athlon. The Athlon is currently in a >developmental stage where it currently boast off-die level 2 caching which >restricts the capabilites of the processor. This is where Intel enjoys it's >advantage over AMD. Because of Intel's integrated on-die level 2 caching system >it out performs AMD in gaming situations while the Athlon excels in business I disagree. The performance of games does not improve significantly with a lot of cache. The Celeron runs games just as fast as a PII, and it has 1/4 of the L2 cache. -Tom
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