Author: stuart taylor
Date: 23:28:40 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.
But sometimes there might be a longer resting period in between, before you
start feeling that you wish you could have waited till now to buy you last CPU.
By "wish" I mean REALLY wish.
If you jump into the right slot, you might be able to have a year without
regrets, as well as another year of relative satisfaction, whereas with an
unfortunate purchase where things quickly change after that, you might find
yourself terribly sad after 3 months, and totally outmoded after 6-9 months.
I hope my Athlon 1.4 (from 6 weeks ago) will hold its own until after the
Palomino well into the Clawhammer or longer.
The Hammers are expected to be a new system, and the Palomino MIGHT be a
bridge into it. But the Athlon seems to me to be a good bridge into all of that,
esp. as it is already a maximised stage of Athlon, and therefore probably more
stable etc.
Unless your are very rich, or live a digital life, in which cases you will never
even TRY to settle down with anything.
But let me ask everyone a question:
Do you think that Gambit Tiger 2 in an Athlon 1.4 will ever be beaten very
close to 10.-0 in the future by any human or machine? Will it EVER lose 6.-0. to
anything person or thing? (unless specially worked out and fixed).
I'm not sure if that will ever happen before 100 Ghz. and the top software
then. (maybe not even with the super computer of that time). So there is plenty
to do in chess without upgrading again. What we have now will NEVER be able to
be taken lightly.
S.Taylor
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