Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 10:04:48 11/19/00
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On November 19, 2000 at 11:14:27, Randy Schmidt wrote: >May I ask what is your Fritzmark? With Fritz 6a (one processor) and 64MB hash, 606. > Do you know of any FMarks on the Athlon 1.2 >or similar? On the Athlon 900 is 850 KN/S. In mine, again with 1 processor, it is 872. > I understand that you do not have Deep Fritz, perhaps Deep Junior? I have Deep Fritz beta, but only the engine. It runs about 70% faster with 2 processors. > >The 1.4 or 1.5 Pentium 4's are due out Monday unless it is more Vaporware? I read that sometime next Spring, but it may be wrong. >I read that Dell pulled its P4 out of the test Computing Gaming World did on >games due to its terrible score. That could have been anything though, not >necessarily a poor processor! Athlon is close to its 1.5 gig also. I think >Q1-2001 without a doubt... > >Where did you pay only $3000 if I may ask!! I ordered the parts to a local computer shop. It's a no brand machine, but with good parts, I think. I guess that the cost should be considerably cheaper in the US than here in Spain. Enrique >On November 19, 2000 at 10:30:27, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: > >>On November 19, 2000 at 10:07:17, Randy Schmidt wrote: >> >>>Of course Bob's comments are interesting... >>> >>>Yesterday I put together (in web browser only) a dream system >>>from Dell. It had two 1-gig P3's and 1024 of RAM...total cost >>>around $6500. >> >>My new one is a dual P933 with 768 RAM, close to your dream machine, but it >>costed me $3000. >> >>>Now according to what I am reading, it would be >>>better to spend around $3500 and wait until the 1.6 gigs are >>>released? I can save $3000, wait 3 months and I have about >>>the same speed of machine? >> >>Probably you would have to wait for about half a year to get comparable speed, >>and then you can always wait for half more year, and then... >> >>Enrique
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