Author: Mark Young
Date: 23:07:01 03/14/98
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On March 14, 1998 at 21:05:03, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>I have recently read a lot of rave reviews about the new Cyrix 266
>processor (some reports have put it as fast as a P11 333!)I have also
>heard that in general the Cyrix is an absolute donkey at chess because
>of its poor floating point performance while on the other hand the AMD
>K6 is a scorcher at chess) Is this true?
>
>Rajen gupta
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This is false. Chess programs do not use floating point. My cyrix P 166
ran chess programs great. But you need to understand you just can not
say this processor or that processor is a scorcher at chess. It makes a
big differance on what chess program you are running. Some programs run
best on the K6 and some run best on a P II. Rebel I know runs best on a
k6 mhz for mhz speed. Crafty Runs best on the P II chip. nimzo 98 i
think runs best on a P II and Fritz 5 i am not sure about. More chess
companys need to do what rebel has done on there web page and post the
speeds of there program on different chips.
My advice would be to buy the chip that runs the most programs the
fastest. Not just chess programs but all programs. You can find this
kind of info at www.zdnet.com.
Mark Young
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