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Subject: Re: Some advice needed

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 20:33:03 04/02/00

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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

I think you should wait for a few weeks.

AMD is going to release the "Spitfire" pretty soon. It's the low-end version of
the Athlon. It has less L2 cache than the Athlon, but the cache is faster
(on-die), so it will proably be extremely fast for computer chess.

The prices will be great, e.g., 600MHz for $99.

-Tom



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