Ook Anand heeft een review van de nieuwe Pentium III E (aka 'Coppermine') op z'n site geparkeerd. Zoals we gewend zijn weer veel benchmarks, die de resultaten van eerdere reviews bevestigen: de PIII-733EB heeft een hogere office performance dan de Athlon 700, maar blijft in sommige FPU intensieve benchmarks achterliggen (trouwens wel opmerkelijk om te zien dat de PIII-733 bijna net zo snel is als de Athlon 700 in 3DMax, blijkbaar doet die 133MHz FSB wonderen). Hier een stukje uit Anand's conclusie:
ow what about the Athlon? The Athlon 600 is still my pick for the best performing chip at a fairly reasonable price. It has no problem outperforming most of Intel’s solutions and if you pick up a modified Athlon 600 (we will be reviewing some of these modification options next week) the chances are very good that you’ll be able to hit at least 650MHz (700MHz won’t be too far out of your reach either). But if you already have a BX setup, should you upgrade to the Athlon? Unfortunately the answer is no. The quality of the motherboards available for the Athlon is definitely sub par and if you need a performance upgrade now and already have a BX motherboard, your best bet is to pick up a BIOS upgrade that enables support for the Coppermine core and pick up a Pentium III E.If you’re building a new computer and the decision comes down to Athlon or Pentium III E, the choice is as close to 50/50 as possible thus leaving it up to you. On the one hand, the Athlon is the faster (clock for clock) and based on much more sophisticated architecture. And on the other hand the Pentium III E has much better motherboard support (even with the BX) and runs considerably cooler.
