Author: stuart taylor
Date: 02:07:35 03/22/01
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On March 22, 2001 at 04:23:58, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >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 Yes, that's what I really intended, but I didn't know it was the same price. But in Israel, there are not many AMD dealers, and the one I know, I fell out with. Also, a good Intel dealer told me that Intel has its benefits, such as much better multi media etc, and that AMD is lacking in that because they never had MMX technology, or anything equal to it. But I'm not saying that is the most important thing. Thanks, any further comment? S.Taylor
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