Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:43:58 02/21/01
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On February 21, 2001 at 16:39:06, Rajen Gupta wrote: >Is it true to say that doubling of cache gives a 5% speed advantage for computer >chess, so that a xeon 700 with 2mb cache would probably be equal to a coppermine >933 ? > >rajen The new xeons _are_ coppermine core so far as I know. The main difference is that the new xeons only come in 1M and 2M L2 cache sizes, the old 512K L2 has been discontinued. My quad 700 is 1M as the 2M chips are incredibly expensive (the 1M chips were 1300 bucks each when I upgraded my machine). I found the 700's were almost 50% faster running crafty than the PIII/550's I had before...
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