Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 10:58:51 07/18/00
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On July 18, 2000 at 13:36:04, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On July 18, 2000 at 10:55:23, Gordon Rattray wrote: > >>I've been holding off buying a new PC until AMD launched it's new chips, etc. >>I've been reading www.tomshardware.com occassionally. Anyway, now it's time to >>buy... >> >>I want a PC mainly for performing chess analysis, quick results and overnight >>analysis of positions. >> >>Which of these PC specs should I buy? They are all in the price region that I'm >>looking at. Will there be any significant performance differences? Is there >>anything else I should be considering? >> >>A) PIII 933Mhz, Intel 815e chipset with ICH2(?), 256k L2 cache, 384Mb RAM >> >>B) Athlon 1Ghz, Athlon enabled motherboard with 200Mhz bus, 256Mb RAM >> >>C) PIII 933Mhz, PIII VIA chipset (133Mhz bus) + AGP Port(?), 256Mb RAM >> >>D) PIII 850Mhz with 512k cache, PIII 133 VIA Apollo motherboard, 256Mb PC133 RAM > >B is probably your best bet, simply because of the difference in clock speed. >Clock for clock, the Athlon and the PIII aren't very different. > >Depending on which chess program you plan to use, one chip might be better than >the other. You might consider testing your programs on computers at a store or >something... But if there is a difference, I'd be surprised if it made up for >the difference in clock speed. > >-Tom I have received very good results on Intel's Coppermine. I think its main reason relies on the fact the L2-cache runs at full speed. The thing even seems to out-perform the KryoTech. These days I would certainly go for Intel if the choice is speed. Of course all of this is Rebel related and I have no clue how other programs perform on the Coppermine. Ed
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