Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 20:29:48 12/14/98
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On December 14, 1998 at 21:34:49, Oliver Y. wrote: >On December 14, 1998 at 19:26:18, James T. Walker wrote: > >>On December 14, 1998 at 11:23:40, Francois Bertin wrote: >> >>>On December 14, 1998 at 10:23:20, James T. Walker wrote: >>> >>>>On December 13, 1998 at 20:14:16, Francois Bertin wrote: >>> >>>>>Hi! I am currently looking around to replace my old and trusty P100. >>>>>I am interested by the AMD K6-300 or 350. >>>>> >>>>>Does anyone know how much positions per second Rebel 10 typically >>>>>does on that kind of processor. Also, does having a L2 cache of 1024K >>>>>instead of 512K has any significant impact on performance with Rebel? >>>>> >>>>>And what about the Celeron 300A, which also seems to be >>>>>a good alternative? >>> >>>>Hello Francois, >>>>I have an AMD K6-2 @350 Mhz with 512K cache. Its hard to give you a NPS since >>>>it not only varies with the position but varies from 1 second to the next with >>>>the same position. Here is a position I used to give you some figures. >>>> >>>>1b2r3/5k1p/BRb3pB/8/4P3/5P2/8/7K b - - 0 1 >>>> BM Rxe4 >>>>Rebel 10a on my K6-2 @ 350 Mhz I timed it for 5 minutes and calculated an >>>>average of 118 KNPS. On my Pentium II @333 Mhz the same 5 minutes averaged >>>>100 KNPS. Of course I've seen higher and lower values throughout a whole game. >>> >>> Thanks for the figures, Jim. Your K6-2 350 must really scream >>>when analyzing :-) On my P100, on average the pos/sec I get when >>>examining a position is around 30,000... >>> >>> You state that your system has 512K of L2 cache. Do you think >>>Rebel would perform better with 1024K in the same task? >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Francois Bertin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>Hello again Francois, >>I'm sorry but I can't answer that. It's out of my expertise ! We had this >>discussion about a month ago with Bob Hyatt and a few others. I think the >>botton line was it would not help a lot. I tried to get one with 1 meg L2 cache >>but ended up taking the "Best price" I could find and skipped the extra cache. > >If I recall correctly, few people could get their hands on the overclockable >Celeron chip. Intel made this impossible once they learned of it, perhaps from >or via http://tomshardware.com The 300A is easily overclockable : It contain a 4.5x multiplier provided to run on a 66 Mhz Motherboard (4.5x66Mhz = 300 Mhz) ... if you switch the motherboard to 100 Mhz you'll get 450 Mhz ... Regards
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