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Subject: Re: rating or strength difference between k7 T-bird 800mhz & k6 450 ???

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 07:27:16 06/13/00

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On June 13, 2000 at 09:50:38, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:

>On June 12, 2000 at 18:35:57, ERIQ wrote:
>
>>for: crafty, chess tiger 12.0 dos, junor 6a, fritz 6a .
>>
>>I'm trying to find out how much higher these fine programs would rate
>>on swedish rating list if t-bird 800mhz 128mb ram was used.
>> As I am thinking of getting that system. also which program would do good
>>in e-mail chess.
>>
>>sign,
>>  Eriq
>
>That is almost one hundred percent faster.  That means your programs will take
>half as long to find a lousy move or a great move.  Don't think that it will
>play twice as strong.
>
>These fast processors are great for programs that are now good at 40/2 but not
>at blitz.  Get it and then kick yourself for not waiting eight months for the
>1500 MHz processors. You could wait until then and get a far-out discount on
>archaic 800 MHz equipment.
>
>Coupled with an ultra fast 32 Mbyte video board you will have a hell of a game
>machine if you decide to buy the 800 MHz Thunderbird.
>
>
>What would say if I told you that in five years we will have 8000 MHz equivalent
>machines and 200 GByte memory storage devices.  Standard RAM will be
>2048 MByte.  Screens will  be flat panel 25 inch with a refresh rate of 300 Hz
>and display up to 4096x1600 with far better contrast than todays monitors.
>
>Tim Frohlick

Talking about hardware, I'm sitting here waiting to get my new PIII 700MHZ from
Dell. I hope it will be a little bit faster than my good 3 years old K6 200MHz
Anyway, I find most of the PC's I have bought to be close to unusable after a
period of 2 - 3 years, even if my good old K6 is still working fine for
wordprocessing etc. Anyway the Fritzmark of my K6 with 32MB hash was 139. Wonder
what I can expect from my new system?

Torstein



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