Quake 3 is very ram intensive, it will take everything you can give it. When we go from pcxxx ram to ddr, the athlon systems only gain about 5% in most benches. BUT Q3 gets a 10%-12% increase in frame rate, it likes large and fast ram, and nothing is faster that L2. Plus consider the fact that in toms test he used DDR and in this one pc-166 was used, well, you get the idea.
Looks to be a nice chip, but it needs ALOT of thing to make it successful:
* a Solid CHEAP motherboard (and DDR board) and work with BX.
* 256 L2 ver. to be priced agaist the Duron.
* 512 L2 ver. to be priced agaist the Athlon.