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Subject: Re: Fastest PC for Rebel vs Anand, please, Ed

Author: fca

Date: 17:19:05 04/20/98

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On April 20, 1998 at 13:32:34, Ed Schröder wrote:


>Since the Pentium-II 400 Mhz is out now (saw several ad's in dutch
>magazines)

Note only the Slot 1 version.... 100MHz motherboard, but L2 cache only
512K and only operating at 1/2 CPU speed i.e. 200 MHz... Also L1 cache
only 16K+16K (half size of AMD K6)

> I like to add an entry to the bench mark page. Question,
>What are the official names of the SLOT-1 and SLOT-2 machines?
>
>Just SLOT-1 and SLOT-2? I couldn't find the answer on Tom's hardware
>page. http://sysdoc.pair.com

Tom is a bit slow sometimes, but very reliable.  This information *is*
on his site, somewhere... hunt around.

For slot 1, just call it "Pentium II".

For slot 2, call it "Pentium II - Deschutes"

This *definitely* has L2 cache upto 2Mb and operating at 100% CPU speed
i.e. say 450MHz (there may first come a 400MHz Deschutes) -  and maybe
(conflicting reports) 32K+32K L1 cache (same as K6).  Of course,
importance of L1 cache diminishes with full speed L2 cache!  Note the 3
Deschutes 450MHz CPUs (512K/1Mb/2Mb of L2) are intended for servers -
cost may be several times cost of ordinary Pentium II... But then chess
performance....

Keep up the good work.

Kind regards

fca

PS: Also, Kryotech may give bigger advantages %-wise on a Deschutes than
on a standard Pentium II of same clock speed, as heat may be more of a
limiting factor with the faster L2 cache....

PPS: I bet you that Deschutes 450MHz is faster than K6 300MHz on Rebel
98.3... :-)




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