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Copyright 2000, Solid
Electric Inc.
 Basically, the same deal as before in Direct3D, 800 MHz overclocked Coppermine beats 800 MHz Athlon, as the 800 MHz Athlon beats the standard-clocked 650E Coppermine. Nothing to see here folks, let's move it along... Dare we say it, maybe a new price/performance king here? While I doubt it can stand up to the 500E/550E in overclocking contests, the 650E sure holds it's own against the competition. Considering how the FC-PGA 650E chips are cheaper than the Slot-1 variants, and can be overclocked to 800 MHz (Slot-1 650E's can usually only overclock to 750 MHz), you could say we're mighty pleased with Intel's latest and greatest. Intel's reaping the benefits of on-die L2 cache right now, and with every new processor that AMD releases with off-die slower L2 cache, we're getting more and more frustrated for their Thunderbird chip to be released (which will incorporate full-speed, on-die cache), and bring them back up to speed. The 650E FC-PGA is yet another winner from the FC-PGA Intel family, 'nuff said.
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