Author: Pham Minh Tri
Date: 20:03:33 09/24/01
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On September 24, 2001 at 21:24:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >On September 24, 2001 at 21:20:10, Pham Minh Tri wrote: > >>Hi all, >> >>From some old posts of last week, I have known that Athlon 1.4 still overcomes >>Intel4 2GHz for chess applications. It seems be the best choice for me. I will >>take one soon. In one hand, I feel unhappy because there is not any new breaking >>technology (for chess), but in the other hand, I feel happy because I will save >>more money for buying the best one (Athlon is much cheeper than the lastest >>Intel, I guess we could be safe to ignore Intel for around 6-8 months - the time >>need for releasing new processor and reducing its price into acceptable one). >> >>However, before going out to buy Athlon, I am curious if AMD is planing to >>release any new processor. Does anybody know about it? Is it worth to wait few >>months (1-3 months) for new one? Any suggestion? > >CPU power grows exponentially over time. If you wait, you will *always* get >something MUCH stronger than if you did not wait, and for the same price. > >On the other hand, since this is *always* true, you will always have to wait, >because there is no forseeable end to it. > >What buying a strong computer does is give you the best available for *now*. If >you get something spectacular (like Bob's quad Xeon or Slate's _wow_ machines) >they will remain competitive for a long time. > >It will be forever impossible to get something that will be stronger than >anything to come. It's sort of like waiting for tomorrow. It's always just >around the corner, but somehow it never gets here. I totally agree with you. But what do think if you buy something and after only few days its price will reduce to be half or third? My problem here is _money_. Few years ago, I bought a new computer for every 2 years. But recently, the period is one year - just because of computer chess (an expensive hobby, isn't it?). If the period of upgrading is reduced more, my wallet will be hurt seriously ;)
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