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Subject: Re: Which PC to buy? A question for the hardware gurus...

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 10:36:38 07/19/00

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On July 19, 2000 at 09:43:36, Eelco de Groot wrote:

>For a rough guide, I would expect most programs to have comparable performances
>on different processors as in the following table at Tom's (not our Tom's)
>Hardware Guide:
>http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q2/000619/duron-08.html
>
>I think the Duron is also an interesting option if you don't want to spend too
>much money. For the more daring under us it can also be overclocked according to
>he same site but I don't believe the Durons can be put on a dual-procesor board?

Depending on how big your chess program's working set is, a Celeron or Duron is
exactly as good as a Pentium III or Athlon.

AMD is working on a dual Athlon/Duron chipset. We probably won't see it in
boards for a few months though. :(

-Tom



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