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Subject: Re: Poll question.

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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