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Subject: Re: What PC config do you use?

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 11:44:00 04/19/00

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On April 19, 2000 at 13:57:26, Dan Andersson wrote:

>>I don't think FPU performance is significant for chess analysis, so the Pentium
>>appears to be more suitable in this respect.
>
>It doesn't follow that the athlon has a substandard integer unit.
>Price/Performance ratings favour the Athlon on almost all counts.

The latest info on Tom's rates only FPU as superior to Pent III coppermine 1
giz. I can not intrepet the Integer performance out of his test data. Can you ?
Thanks. And from the previous thread maybe FPU is _not_ important to chess
software, I dunno, have to get the advise from Dr Hyatt or others.
Wayne

• Re: What PC config do you use? Robert Hyatt 19:59:04 04/19/00
  • Re: What PC config do you use? William Bryant 20:16:04 04/19/00
    • Re: What PC config do you use? Robert Hyatt 20:35:14 04/19/00
• Re: What PC config do you use? Dan Andersson 12:23:56 04/19/00

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