Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 09:49:10 05/12/01
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On May 12, 2001 at 10:36:52, Oliver Y. wrote:
>On May 11, 2001 at 18:47:45, Rajen Gupta wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Assume that all of us have read and understand at least the contents at
>tomshardware.com when commenting:
>
>Is there anything more specific re Pentium 4/Pentium 3 or its 400FSB RAM that
>anyone could comment on? What about prospects for improved chipsets?
The 400FSB is actually an overclocked 100FSB Amd's 266 is not overclocked!
Regards
Jonas
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