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Subject: Re: Any CPU advice, please

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:26:49 08/03/00

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On August 03, 2000 at 01:22:18, stuart taylor wrote:

>
>Isn't AMD Thunderbirds the very best thing available now at reasonable price?
>S.Taylor

The PIII/800 is $286. The Thunderbird/800 is $246. The Athlon/800 is $208.

For most chess programs, the "Classic Athlon" may be as fast as the Thunderbird.
Seems like a good deal to me...

Pricewatch doesn't even list Pentium III's over 933MHz, presumably because they
barely exist. (Or they're OEM-only parts?) Anyway, the 933 costs $649.

The Thunderbird/950 costs $599. The Athlon/950 costs $559.

-Tom



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