This is a joke, right? Either that or a misprint. I mean, if they are comparing it to a "normal" pentium (MAX 166MHz I think), then they are obviously missing anything produced in the later half of the 1990s. This misses the MMX (MAX 233MHz), the Pentium IIs, and lets not forget the Celeron processors. Initial figures only have the P3 comming at ~7% higher on 3DMARKs than my Celeron (300A oc'ed to 450). Hardly anything to write home about. and certainly not worth the $1000+ markup in price for a P3. Of course I could talk for days about how MegaHertz (cycles per second) isn't worth the value that the industry tries to put on it. MIPS is the figure that counts.
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This is a joke, right? Either that or a misprint. I mean, if they are comparing it to a "normal" pentium (MAX 166MHz I think), then they are obviously missing anything produced in the later half of the 1990s. This misses the MMX (MAX 233MHz), the Pentium IIs, and lets not forget the Celeron processors. Initial figures only have the P3 comming at ~7% higher on 3DMARKs than my Celeron (300A oc'ed to 450). Hardly anything to write home about. and certainly not worth the $1000+ markup in price for a P3. Of course I could talk for days about how MegaHertz (cycles per second) isn't worth the value that the industry tries to put on it. MIPS is the figure that counts.