Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 15:19:34 11/19/00
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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. 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? basically, yes. Of course if you do any computation at all, and you do multiple things, the second cpu will work quite well. The 1.7X figure I quoted was for my chess engine using 2 cpus. 2 compiles will run 2x faster, for example.
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