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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