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Electric Inc.
We ran our benchmarking with a 650E at
default speed, and a 650 at 800 MHz versus an Athlon at 800 MHz.
This is a biased test, since the tests were run on a BX motherboard
(Soyo SY6BA-IV), which means for the 650E to run at 800 MHz, the FSB
was pushed up to 124 MHz, and the AGP clock higher to 82 MHz. Our
Athlon testbed was equipped with a Soyo K7-AIA, which is based on
AMD's 750/756 chipsets. Both systems were equipped with 128MB of
Infineon PC-133, an Asus V6800 Pure GeForce DDR, and a Quantum
Fireball KA Ultra ATA/66 hard drive.
 The Coppermine 650E holds it's own against the Athlon, and outpaces it by quite a bit when overclocked. Once again, we see the video card as the bottleneck at resolutions above 1024x768, no matter how fast the processor is, it's not going to exceed those numbers. In the High-Quality Quake III tests, we see the 650E uncomfortably close to the 800 Athlon, only 3 FPS difference. Considering the 650E is about $400 less than the Athlon 800, it looks to be an incredible price/performance processor.
 In pure software-rendering FPU power, the Athlon shows it's muscle, but the overclocked 650E still beats it in every test. The standard-clock speed 650E still competes quite well against the Athlon, we expect to see the real 800 MHz Coppermine's to compete head to head with the Athlon 800 and be VERY close.
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