Author: Mark Young
Date: 14:44:13 09/11/99
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On September 11, 1999 at 17:09:16, Paulo Soares wrote: >On September 11, 1999 at 14:37:13, Mark Young wrote: > >>On September 11, 1999 at 12:36:33, Paulo Soares wrote: >> >>>On September 11, 1999 at 11:49:04, Mark Young wrote: >>> >>>(snip) >>>>I would run it on the Fastest PIII I could get my hands on. The performance will >>>>not drop that much in terms of Elo over the K Chips. And you no longer have to >>>>worry about hardware crashes and strange thing happening in the game due to >>>>hardware. This seems to be the smart move to make, but I know some people like >>>>to play with fire even after being burned.;) >>>(snip) >>> >>>You can see at "Rebel and your PC", in Rebel site, the relations: >>> >>>K63-600 is 63.6% more fast than PIII500 >>>K63-600 is 36.4% more fast than K6-450 >>> >>>If better is to change the processor, I would to choose K63-450. >>> >>>Paulo >> >>Some people are hard learners, the problem is with the K chip. It may be faster >>then Intel but the Intel is the better chip. Who knows maybe the K7 has solved >>some of the problems I have seen in the K6 chip, but I will wait till I see it. >> >>The point is you do not lose that much playing with the Intel chip, and you gain >>far more in stability and reliability then you ever lose in speed. > >Well, I thougth that K63-450 was a stabily processor and only >K6-600(overcloked) was wrong. >Paulo I have had problems with the K6 when overclocked or not, at times I have had no problem and out of the blue I had crashes. For me, I got sick of it, the speed was not worth the problems. The Intel chips... I can have them on running a chess program 24 hours a day for a week or more and not have one crash. This is why I have stuck with Intel, even when the K6 was Cheaper and Faster running some chess programs.
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