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Subject: Re: Maastricht hardware? Whats better? Dual PIII 1Ghz or Athlon 1.4Ghz?

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 00:48:49 08/20/01

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On August 19, 2001 at 17:06:46, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>Hi,
>
>>What is actually the biggest number cruncher, the Athlon 1,4 GHZ or the Dual
>>PIII?
>
>From the power an Dual P III 1GHz system.
>
>2 engines with full speed for analyses
>Engine-Engine with ponder
>Play with Deep versions.
>
>From the price a Athlon 1.4 GHz system (processor "only" DM 350,-- DM in
>Germany, like Computer Service Becker ... my big boss at the moment) :-))
>
>>PS! Another question: What motherboard supports dual Athlon?
>
>Tyan created the first Pentium II dual motherboard (Tiger 100)
>Tyan cretead the first Pentium III Slot A dual motherboard (Tiger 133)
>Tyan created the first Athlon dual motherboard ...
>
>http://www.tyan.com
>
>The Pentium Boards are very good server boards, I used the Tiger 133 for my CCE
>tourney.
>
>For Pentium III is the ABit VP6 or the MSI dual boards at the moment better.
>
>I don`t know the Tyan dual board at the moment. I hope I get next week more
>information. I will make a test on the server board from Tyan (price is ~
>2.000,-- DM). The normally dual Athlon board from Tyan ~ 800,-- DM.
>
>Hope the information are good enough.
>Better and not so expensiv are the very stabil Abit VP6 Pentium III dual system.
>
>Best
>Frank


Athlon 1.4 Ghz is a lot better for Crafty anyway.
Take a look SpecInt 2000 the URL out of my hear was: http://www.spec.org

Regards,

Michel



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