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Subject: Re: Any CPU advice, please

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 15:59:54 08/03/00

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On August 03, 2000 at 14:26:49, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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...
>
>
>-Tom

Isn't it very worthwhile for general purposes to spend an extra $38 approx, and
get the thunderbirds, over the regular? (and also be safer against crashes etc.)
  And perhaps Duron/800 costs even less and would be about the same?
S.Taylor




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