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Subject: Re: Which Chip?

Author: Chuck

Date: 15:17:02 04/30/99

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On April 30, 1999 at 14:09:15, Alain Lyrette wrote:

>The AMD K6-2 was a little bit faster with so-call knowledge-base programs
>(Hiarcs,Rebel10b)because those` programs relies more on the amount of cache that
>the cpu can support.With fast thinking programs(Fritz,nimzo99) the difference is
>minimal,almost non-existant.Now the new k6-3 is probably the fastest (beside
>Alpha)and the best cpu for chess programs since they have tri-level
>cache(64k....256k.....and third level cache of up to 2meg).However remember that
>the k6-3 is still weak in fpu if you play 3d games if you compare it to the
>pentium 2 and 3.Fpu is of course irrelevant in chess programs.....

The FPU is also irrelevant in 3D games if you have a 3D graphics card.



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