Author: Alain Lyrette
Date: 15:43:19 04/19/00
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On April 19, 2000 at 06:16:17, Gordon Rattray 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 >>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 Cache seems to be really important for a couple of chess programs(mainly the so-called knowledge base programs)The Athlon Thunderbird is supose to come out in may with 128 L1/256 L2 cache on die which is faster than the 512 l2 motherboard cache of the plain vanilla Athlon...might just wait a little
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