Author: Gordon Rattray
Date: 03:16:17 04/19/00
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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 >some new Athlon CPUs on the way and corresponding new motherboards using DDR >memory chips. The PIII 1Ghz systems (from Dell) are based on i820. The Athlon (from Gateway) is based on the AMD 750 chipset. I've been told before, and also read, that RDRAM isn't great from chess programs. But I didn't know how a PIII 1Ghz using RDRAM compares to a PIII 800Mhz using 100Mhz SDRAM?! Tom's hardware web site shows some benchmarks. I don't know if these can be applied to chess (e.g. the ones based on general apps, not games/graphics)?! I'd guess not. I will probably take your advice a wait a little while. Because hardware is always changing I didn't know if I was going to end up holding off forever, but now does seem to be a time of change and it may pay me to wait. Thanks Gordon
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