SYS Technology - Product Reviews - November 1999

Athlon PC Sprints Past PIIIs

PC World
November 1999

You could see this baby coming ever since AMD launched the Athlon (previously K7) rocket on June 23 and Sys adopted it immediately thereafter. Sys makes it happen first in PC World with the Sys Performance 600A. In this latest-and-greatest, head-to-head competition, Sys shows the way. And the words definitely get it right.

"...we tested two desktops fueled by Intel's latest screamer, the Pentium III-600. Both systems earned record PC WorldBench 98 scores for PCs running their respective operating systems. But these impressive scores look almost anemic compared to the numbers posted by one AMD Athlon-injected machine. With a PC WorldBench score of 345, the Athlon-600-based Sys Performance 600A, running Windows NT, rips the speed crown away from Intel's reigning PIII system. It's more than 6% faster than the NT-based Dell Dimension XPS T600, which turned in a PC WorldBench score of 323. The Quantex SM600 SE also packs a PIII-600, but our test unit came with Windows 98, so we can't compare its PC WorldBench score of 260 head-to-head with the Sys's score."

This fully loaded model is currently shipping in volume. Please contact your SYS sales person at 1-800-613-9963. Lets build one for you!

BTW...our Sys Performance 700A is already slated for their January issue.

Related Links

• Read the SYS Performance 600A review
• Configure a SYS Performance desktop (AMD-based)

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