Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 17:10:43 04/02/00
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On April 02, 2000 at 16:00:21, Dave Gomboc wrote: >On April 02, 2000 at 13:06:08, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi all: >>I am thinking in upgrading my actual 200Mhz Intel processor for a AMD 450 Mhz. >>Do you know of some objetion to that brand in chess processing? Problems of any >>kind that makes of the change unadvisable? >>Thanks >>Fernando > >There's more than one kind of AMD 450MHz processor, (K6-2, K6-2+ / K6-3, maybe >Athlon too?). Which one did you mean? (And which Intel processor are you >upgrading from?) > >Having said that, I don't recall any particular chess-related problems with any >of those CPUs. Someone else might know better, though. > >Some programs tend to relatively favour AMD or Intel, performance-wise. If you >use only a particular chess engine (instead of many :-) then you might want to >bring that up. > >Dave Hi David: Oh, yes, I forgot: it is a MMX 200 Mhz. For the price, I think what I have been offered is the K6-2. By the way, I am going to change to w2000 next week, so, well, I still am stuck in my doubts... Thanks David Fernando
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