Author: David Blackman
Date: 01:57:01 09/22/00
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On September 21, 2000 at 20:17:00, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >Gordon, > >The Pentium IV will be coming out early to mid next year I think they may appearing before the end of this year. A few people have managed to obtain actual working machines containing Pentium IV, which suggests a couple of months should be enough to catch the last few bugs and start mass production. >and it will have an >internal bus running over twice as fast as todays machines. In addition it >will be clocking at 1.4 Ghz or more. It also has an extremely long pipeline, and only 8KB of first level data cache. Those are bad for most chess programs. Expect similar performance to an Athlon or PIII running at 75% of the same clock speed, for most (but not all) chess programs. >Good things come to those who wait, The good thing to wait for is probably "Sledgehammer", the 64 bit AMD chip. Crafty likes 64 bit chips, and i'm sure other programs will learn to like them if they become successful in home machines. In many ways the Compaq Alpha is even nicer, but there are still no signs of fast Alphas cheap enough to buy for a home machine. >Tim Frohlick
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