Dokter Tom heeft een follow-up gepost op z'n 1GHz Athlon en PIII benchmark festijn, met benchmarks van de 1GHz Pentium III op een i840 plank met PC600 en PC800 Rambus DRAM. Daartoe moest hij wel eerst een speciaal BIOS bij Intel los purken want het standaard i840 BIOS blijkt gelocked te zijn voor processors sneller dan 800MHz. Toen het zaakje eenmaal aan de gang was gekacheld bleek dat de i840 met dual Rambus in bijna alle benchmarks sneller is dan de 1GHz Athlon en in sommige gevallen zelfs een 440BX op 133MHz voorbij gaat. Hoerah, applaus voor Intel!
There you have it! With the inclusion of Intel's 840 chipset in the Giga-evaluation, Giga-Pentium III is able to win each real world benchmark in this set. Only Giga-Athlon's pure FPU-performance is on top of Giga-Coppermine's.[...] As for the winner of this competition, the Giga-Pentium III, you are in a strange situation. First of all the product doesn't seem to be available. World wide only a handful of reviewers has done testing with it. European reviewers are ranting and raving about Intel's inability to supply review samples. Actual Giga-system are hardly in sight anywhere and I doubt that there will be any boxed Giga-Pentium III in retail shops for quite some time to come. So what does that leave us at? A Phantom-product has won the competition. It's as if an Athlete broke the latest 100m-race record by running on the moon. Even if Giga-Pentium III was available though, you would get the best performance out of an officially 'outdated' 440BX-platform, or out of an expensive i840-system, which currently doesn't support Giga-Pentium III as well.