Author: Pete R.
Date: 15:41:52 07/18/00
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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 > > >I'd appreciate if you could tell me which spec is better and why. >Alternatively, just tell me that they are all rather equivalent. > >Thanks in advance for any advice I'm about in the same boat, I was hoping AMD would come out with dual processor support soon, but I will have to buy before that happens. As such I would go with the 1 GHz Thunderbird on an ASUS A7V motherboard. A7V, not K7V, you definitely want the Socket A Thunderbird.
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