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Subject: Re: NEW DUAL XEON @ 1.7Ghz

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:12:55 05/24/01

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On May 24, 2001 at 16:07:59, Ed Panek wrote:

>On May 24, 2001 at 15:30:05, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>It would seem that this has nothing at all to do with chess performance, am I
>>right? And do you realise that this dual chipset has the same bug that caused
>>the delay of Intels last one.
>>
>>Regards Dan Andersson
>
>
>that is correct it is not correctly tied to chess performance, however since it
>is a new processor option which could be considered significant it probably does
>relate to computer chess.
>
>I wouldnt doubt intel has problems...thats why i buy AMD  :)
>
>
>

It really isn't significant.  Only difference between the 1.7 gig xeons and
the 1.7 gig PIII's is the big L2 cache.  And none of the 'hot boys' can go
quad yet...  xeon or not.


>Ed



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