At 04:03 PM 5/29/1998  Nguyen Minh Luan  wrote:
>
>I am going to have a new CPU. but i don't know which of the Intel 200MMX
>and the K6 233mhz is the most suitable. I don't work on the field needs
>much graphics, enormous multimedia perfomances... but I am a gamer.


Nguyen

K-6 also has MMX; moreover, it has twice the cache
of the Intel Pentium MMX. However, the K-6's FPU
(on-board math coprocessor) is not nearly as fast as
the Intel MMX (important for games). But you get more
than for the buck with AMD.

Therefore, as a gamer, you should go Intel CPUs (plus,
when game developers code they usually use Intels).
I recommend you get a Pentium II when the prices
drop in July. Decent LX chipset motherboards are
hitting the $100 level (wholesale) so the CPU price
is the main difference (switchover to DIMMs is not
bad since the prices per MB are same as SIMMs,
except for the PC-100 compliant -- i.e. BX-chipset,
Front Side Bus RAM). The speed boost with the
1/2 CPU-speed cache onboard the P-II makes a
difference.

But with games, the 3D performance of your video
subsystem is more important. Adding a Monster 3D-II
board would really boost your game system, and that
upgrade costs more than any Socket 7 CPU.

Regards,

John Chin