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Subject: Re: Any CPU advice, please

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 14:14:31 08/02/00

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On August 02, 2000 at 16:25:10, Takashi Iwamoto wrote:

>AMD Processors are cheaper. Intel Pentiums are more expensive but have been know
>as a realiable company.  AMD and Intel processors for chess programs are about
>the same.  Anything above a 800MHz is a killer.
>
>Check them out on the ICC.
>
>Fritz6a
>Chess Tiger
>Deep Junior
>Hiarcs7.32
>
>On such fast processors are a killer.
>
>Takashi

One thing to note is that fast (> 800 MHz) Intel processors are in short supply.

Tom's Hardware has been publishing some scathing reviews of the 1.13GHz Pentium
III because it's very unstable. But as far as I know, no other current Intel
processor has stability issues.

-Tom



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