Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 22:15:54 03/25/00
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On March 24, 2000 at 22:39:28, Laurence Chen wrote: >On March 24, 2000 at 21:38:57, Wayne Lowrance wrote: > >>Forgive me, this is mostly off topic. I need help/advise. Thank you. >> >>Topic 1) Probobly discussed by Dr. Bob Hyatt humpteen times, but i cannot find >>the archives here. I can afford to buy 1 more computer in my life time (I just >>turned 70 and my family already thinks I am off base, after all they say You do >>have a 400 mhz pentium 256 mb ram etc etc.) but I want one more computer >>upgrade. I am weighing my option of a dual at say 500 mhz (celeron I guess) >>verses a 750 mhz PIII. I was hot to trot for a Athlon 800, but posts here and a >>visit to my favorite computer systems house discouraged me on the Athylon. They >>(the system house)will no longer sell systems incorporating the Athlon 800 >>because of temperature problems. (for now at least) >> >>If I remember what Dr. Bob has stated here before, crafty ( I guess Jr as well) >>play around 75 percent for dual's. So that puts a dual to the equivalent (chess >>equivalent) of 750 mhz, comparing identical with the single pentium III. Am I >>correct ? >> >>So to the point: The following system was quoted to me: and I have a few >>questions in this regard. >> >>CPU-------------- Pentium III 750D--------(Cyber III-750) what is that mean ? >> 133 MHz AGP VIA Is that good ? Is this the coppermine thing ? >> >> 256k advance transfer cache. Is that the same as L2 Pipeline if not >> Which is better for chess. >> >> 256 MB PC 133 SDRAM >> >>Hard drive-------10 GB UA66 7200 RPM >> >>CD-ROM/DVD-------8x DVD/CD-ROM >> >>Video RAM--------32 MB ATI EXP 2000 AGP/D >> >>Fax/Modem--------56k Diamond V.90 >> >>Sound System-----Yamaha Audio PCI 64 Voice >> >>The rest is keyboard, mouse, windows 98 operating system and 250 Watt Power andh >>a 5 year parts & labor guarantee for the system. >> >>my cost---------$1,614.00 Plus tax. >> >>What you all think ? >> >> >>Topic 2) For Amir Ban and Dr Bob if they had the interest of reading my post and >>are willing to respond, briefly if they wish and if they dont have data, please >>make your best guess. Other opinions are very worth while to me as well. >> >>Crafty: How would you compare the performance of crafty in the above computer as >>compared with 500 mhz dual cpu's. >> >>Junior6: Same question, how would you compare the performance of Deep Jr with a >>dual 500 mhz cpu's against Junior6 in the above computer system. >> >> >>Lastly (at last you say) Any suggestions as to a better computer system in that >>price range or something close (very) to it. >> >>Whoops, PS: The graphic accelerator 3d capability is very important for apps >>running Flight Simulator 2000 etc. Is the above one excellent for this app. >> >>I am done >> >>Thanks for all especially if you got this Far >1. If it is an Intel CPU then it is a Coppermine, any Intel CPU 650 MHz and >above is a Coppermine chip. >The 256 Cache is an on-die built in cache, and although it is only half of the >512 Cache, but it is clocked twice as fast than the 512 Cache. Besides >coppermine chips only comes with 256K cache. >The VIA Chipset is much better than the i820 chipset because it provides a much >cheaper price using SDRAM, unless you can afford the RDRAM for the i820. >AS for the Video Card, I personnally don't like ATI video cards. Also if you >plan to run Windows 2000 make sure that the card is compatible with Windows >2000, some ATI video cards won't support Windows 2000. >2. I don't think that dual Celerons are as good as a dual Pentium Xeon or a >single Pentium III running at the equivalent clock speed which the dual Celerons >run. I believe that the problem is that Windows NT does not like Celeron >processors that much. Remember that in order to run of a dual processor >computer you must run Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000. >Hope this helps. >Laurence Thank you very much
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