Re: K6-2 and 3Dfx

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From: Jeff
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 00:00

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Andre M Scroggie wrote in message ...
>
>Check out the following taken from:
>http://www.kryotech.com/kindex.asp
>KryoTech's -400C cooling system; AMD-K6-2 processor (333MHz air cooled,
>450MHz KryoCooled); ATX motherboard with 100MHz system bus and AGP; 300
>Watt power supply; Custom ATX chassis with state-of-the-art thermal
>management.
>The Cool K6-2 provides thermally accelerated 3DNow! processing ideal for:
>I think it is $500 extra, but it increases the performance by 35%, which
>would give it 20% better performance than a PII 400 benchmarked on quake
at:
>http://www.tomshardware.com/K6-2-3Dperf.html


The bare bones system is *really* expensive.
$1695 for bare bones case, PS, m'board, and processor.
M'board and CPU=~300-350
Case/PS=1300+
That's a lot of dough for a lousy 20-35%, not worth it in my opinion.

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Date: 1998/06/02
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