Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 13:37:19 04/18/00
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On April 18, 2000 at 14:26:58, Dan Andersson wrote: >What are the chipsets of the machines? i820 is a piece of crap btw. RDRAM might >not be such a great idea for the Transposition Table (Hash table), it has been >debated before. And I personally preferr the VIA KX133 chipset for the Athlon. >If you can wait a little time with your buy I would reccomend that, as there are I agree >some new Athlon CPUs on the way and corresponding new motherboards using DDR >memory chips. There are now 5 total motherboards out now that I am aware of, (Ref Toms page). Support for the AMD 1 gig chip is very very slow coming from the motherboard people. I have not found the site for the Dell 1 gig. Where you getting that . info> Concerning the Gateway computer: Have you asked what size the L2 is and _at what clock speed?_. The Athylon is configured for speed options off of the core clock. I have not been able to get a reasonable answer from Gateway on the clock speed, The size is 512! Compaq also offeres the 1 Gig Athylon, and is less expensive, but have not been able to get help from their tech people, what platform are they shipping and L2 configuration, they do not respond. So right now know this, the Athylon permits OEM's the ability to configure Athylons for a relativly inexpensive computer at the expense of performance. Chances are the Athylon 1 gig's incorporated now are tuned down from what Tom has been using. On that subject visit Tom's page again, he has quite different results on the comparison of Pent/Athylons now based on different platforms from previous testing. The Pent comparison only looses to AMD on FPU performance alone. I have just about independantly decided to wait a scosh and see what develops. One thing for sure, regarding the Pent/Athylon 1gigs, the Athylon raw FPU is very much faster than the Pent. Is this a first order Paramater importance in Chess Programs I dunno, Not a programmer. How important is L2 buss speed for chess programs. Example comparing core/2 or core/3 ?, I am afraid units are bing shipped now with Motherboards configured with core/3. A Gateway dude said that the L2 was 400 mhz for Gateway configured motherboard (faster than that he said would fry the cpu, hummmm). The only Problem is 400 mhz apparently is not one of the options for L2 clock, makes one wonder. I give three cheers for Gateway, Compaq and apparently Dell for quick response to the AMD 1 gig cpu. Others will follow and who knows maybe even Dr. Bob will buy one. (only kdding Doc) Wayne
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