Author: Gordon Rattray
Date: 03:26:32 04/19/00
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On April 18, 2000 at 16:37:19, Wayne Lowrance wrote: >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> > http://www.euro.dell.com/countries/uk/enu/dhs/products/series_dimen_desktops.htm Look at their Dimension XPS B systems. The top-end are based on 1GHz PIIIs. >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! The spec I looked at also said 512K L2 cache. I've don't know what clock speed. >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. > I think I will be waiting too. >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. > I don't think FPU performance is significant for chess analysis, so the Pentium appears to be more suitable in this respect. >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 Thanks Gordon
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