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Subject: Re: Followup on 1.3 vs 1.33 Athlon (Simple Answers Please)

Author: Ed Panek

Date: 06:52:26 04/04/01

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On April 04, 2001 at 09:46:43, Ed Panek wrote:

>On April 04, 2001 at 09:24:25, Frank Wolf wrote:
>
>>My computer expertise is modest at best.  OK, the 1.33 Athlon has a faster bus,
>>but the 1.3 has a higher clock rate.  So which is faster for chess, and by how
>>much?
>
>
>Ok this is what I would do if I wanted to spend some money on  a top of the line
>Athlon computer. Purchase a computer with the 1.33 GHZ athlon and 266 FSB. This
>is probably best...then from there...assuming you have a quality motherboard,
>Overclock the processor only to 1.5 GHZ. I have seen this done with only air
>cooling with a dual fan heatsink. The cpu temperature should stay stay at 50'C.
>you should have no problems and life will be great for about 8 months until most
>other people have caught or are starting to pass you in CPU speed. then start
>over. repeat until death..ready ...begin.
>
>Ed

Soory cpu TEmp should be less than 40C :) A general rule is one should be able
to touch the heatsink for more than 5 second without pain :)



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