I can tell you that I was at a presentation a few weeks ago demonstrating
the speed of the new Athlon CPU's. We were shown 2 identical system, (not
quite identical, as the Athlon uses the AMD and Via Chipset, and the PIII
uses intel.) But, these 2 machines were sitting side by side, both running
600mhz CPU's, one PIII- 600 the other the Athlon 600.

The two machines were started with a mouse click to run the Latest version
of WinBench. All I can say is the Athlon Blew Away the PIII, as it finished
the test almost 3-minutes faster than the PIII. I was impressed enough, that
I now am the proud new owner of an Athlon 700, and love it. It is fast, and
runs solid as a rock! Not a single crash or lockup in over 2 weeks.

Hope this answers your question, and doesn't seem too Biased  :-)

Steve Wolfe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Hays" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 8:40 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] 550 Pentium III vs 700 AMD Athlon


> Could someone please tell me which would be a better faster computer: a
> Pentium III 550 or a 700 AMD Athlon?
>
> Thank you,
> Susan Hays
>
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