Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 01:23:58 03/22/01
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On March 22, 2001 at 04:06:46, stuart taylor wrote: >I need to know during these hours if I should bother upgrading from AMD k6-3 >400mhz. to Pentium 3, Intel, 866mhz. together with, maybe a faster newer hard >drive of about 20 ghz, from about 10 ghz? > Will it atleast double speed for most chess programs (Tiger, Rebel, Fritz >etc)? > Will it also be beneficial in all other ways? > Any thing less beneficial? >Thanks alot for any advice, and I need to know quick. >S.Taylor Why upgrade to a pentium 3 866 when you can get the Athlon T-bird 1.2ghz for the same price?? i have the T-bird 1.2ghz clocked to 1.3ghz and it is FAST! Benchmark tests shows that the T-bird 1.2ghz is faster than the pentium 4 1.5ghz it is the fastest single processor system you can get (as far as i know). www.tomshardware.com has all the benchmarks you need, including the t-bird versus the p4 1.5 I get with my system a Fritzmark of 1200+ kN/s and Deep Junior is as strong (or maby stronger than Deep Fritz) on my single processor system, when it get's speed enough. You would get more or equal speed if you where to buy the Duron 850 as with the p3 866 so i strongly suggest the T-bird 1.2 Regards Jonas Regards Jonas
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