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>Ive heard tell of those who claim they can play Quake just as well on both
>the K5-K6 processors, but I keep asking myself the same question, if all I
>heard before about the arguments on the Pentium having one major advantage
>and playing Quake was it because of it's alleged better FPU then AMD users
>really have something other than price to chuckle about; AMD's fpu is
>either damn close to being as good as Intel's fpu or it in fact IS as good
>as Intel's, in the case it isnt as good as the Intel FPU, AMD can take a
>lot of credit there and every other way they beat the Pentium, I would
>think people are really dumb to buy a specific processor to play one game a
>tad eency weency better than the AMD K6, which beat the Intel Pentium II in
>most or all other benchmarks hands down!


FACTS:
The K6 and M2 are highly competitive chips on the market today, very
appealing to many customers because of high performance to cost ratio
in comparison to intel's chips .. but to say that either M2 or K6 even
remotely approximate the performance capabiltites of the Pentium II
processor is grossly ignorant. The Pentium II debuted with the
horribly aged FX chipset, from which all of the first (& most noticed)
benchmark tests were run. This is something akin to a new 1200hp V16
engine being dropped into a Ford Pinto. Anyways, the results were
virtually dead-even with the M2 and K6 in every respect except for
FPU, in which the Intel chip stole the show. But, with the release of
the LX Pentium Chipset, everything changes. The LX chipset unleases
two pieces of technological development which have long since aided
the later P5 chipsets, which are Sdram and AGP support. Running
full-duplex 10-ns 64-bit Synchronously accessed and written ram is a
vast advantage to using the antiquated 72-pin FP and EDO ram, which is
single-channel 32-bit memory running at best (with very rare, high-end
vendors only) 45ns. Thus, the FX-based Pentium II machines only kept
pace with the competition with this vile hindrance to performance. I
just tested a Pentium II-300MMX running on an LX motherboard
overclocked to 366Mhz, with 128 megabytes of 10ns Sdram and AGP,
and the system was violently faster than any other PC I have yet to
encounter. The K6 and M2 don't even approximate that kind of power.
This revelation has nothing to do with my personal feelings towards
AMD, Cyrix, or Intel, of which I have none. I could care less who
makes what, I merely honestly witness who makes the fastest chips, and
the best chip depends entirely on your budget and your needs. Everyone
has a different cost-to-power ratio to consider. Currently, the best
buy on the block seems to be a K6-166MMx overclocked to 200 or
sometimes higher, and I have seen that CPU wholesale for as low as
$108, and coupled with a decent $100 motherboard, you've got a nice
fast core for a system at a fraction of the cost of a big, bad P-II. 
           
                                              Regards, Thor Bjorn