Author: Randy Schmidt
Date: 14:22:42 12/08/00
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On December 08, 2000 at 17:03:47, John Dahlem wrote: >Where do you people get all this information? I checked Toms Hardaware and it >seemed to show that the P4 was quite a bit better in performance than any AMD on >the market. And who has done testing for it with chess programs? Is there some >new technology coming very soon that would make it a better idea to wait on a >purchase? It's been five years since the last one (I have a pentium 75 mhz and >16 megs of ram!) and I want a computer that will last awhile. I know AMD is >cheaper, but at the moment all I care about is performance. Randy Schmidt's post >seemed to say the best time to buy would be February, is this true? Read Tom's Hardware carefully. The P4 shines only on very specific tasks. Did you read all the other articles right below the "main one"? You can also go to other sites like AnandTech and get the same results. None of the P4's strengths are chess related.
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