Author: Wayne Lowrance
Date: 12:03:55 03/20/01
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On March 20, 2001 at 09:55:58, Joshua Lee wrote: >this june intel or amd is going to do this and i personally have been strictly >AMD except for my laptop, but if INTEL comes through with a dual P4 1.7Ghz or >better yet 2.3Ghz then this is the way to go as most of us can't afford a dual >or quad 833Mhz DEC Alpha. > >yes i said 2.3Ghz an article i saw mention a bios option for this so at the >least P4's will come out in this clock speed at a minimum but since intel got so >many years out of the P6 core they said 4Ghz was possible. many pipelines. > >so yes in june you could have a dual 1.7Ghz P4 which might be close to a quad >1Ghz. I would not be too anxious to jump into pentium anything for chess programs ! dual t-bird mobo's will be available soon. No pentium will touch them ! Do not hold your breath on the above P4's based on intel's recent history (last couple of years), AMD will keep pace and that is good for chess programs. Lastly AMD has a good history of delivery of there new cpu's in contrast to Intel. my opinion wayne
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