Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 15:47:45 05/11/01
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On May 11, 2001 at 16:34:29, Oliver Y. wrote:
>I'm thinking of getting a new motherboard and CPU {single processor board}.
>
>Using just tomshardware.com and www.pricewatch.com, can anyone recommend whether
>AMD or Pentium is more cost effective?
>
>Assume that I have to purchase RAM from scratch.
>
>I would have guessed that AMD is the obvious choice but I know little about how
>effectively the RDRAM would be for current programs...
>
>The only important or useful activity for such a computer would be chess
>analysis...
>
>Thanks for any guidance, and sorry if this is not particularly as 'On topic' as
>some would like...
>
>aplayer at canada.com would be my email address...
i would advise you to buy an AMD 1333 processor with a motherborad that supports
266 frontside bus. i'm not sure which type of RAM you ought to buy-DDRAM or
SDRAM) DDRAM is about 75% more expensive but slightly better performing - this
may however be more than balanced by the fact that for the same cost you could
buy a lot more SDRAM )
RDRAM only works with pentium 4 chips which in any case is a relative duffer for
chess.
rajen
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