Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 06:11:09 12/15/01
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On December 15, 2001 at 05:00:25, Matthias Gemuh wrote: >On December 15, 2001 at 01:04:22, Will Singleton wrote: > >>I just got a Micron Athlon XP 1900+, single cpu, running at 1.6ghz. I am just >>blown away by the whole experience. >> >>First of all, Win XP is pretty amazing. It appears to be rock solid, super-user >>friendly, and looks and feels great. Wonderful utilities, auto-config >>everything, and everything seems to work. I think this is the first OS I have >>used that appears to fulfill the promise of useful and easy computing for the >>masses. >> >>But the speed of this thing is amazing. I can have 10 progs open at once, and >>not even notice any performance hit. But the chess is even more amazing. I >>have a copy of Yace, and it gets an average of 1 million nps on this monster. I >>played a few games on ICC, and it's pretty damn strong. >> >>Here's an example. In a 5 5 game tonight, Yace went from a negative score to >>like +2 in 10-15 seconds, like right out of book vs Rebel. How long does it >>take your prog to go positive in this position? >> >>[D]1q2kb1r/3n1ppp/2b1p3/1Np3N1/1p1Pn3/1B6/1P2QPPP/2B2RK1 w k - 0 1 >> >>The only problem with the Micron is the excessive fan noise. Guess the Athlon >>really generates heat. Anyone know of a way to reduce it, like a substitute >>fan? >> >>Will > > > >Sounds like you were still using Win98. >Switch now to Win2000 Pro and you will be truly blown away. There is no difference between Windows 2000 Pro and the Windows XP Pro which usually come with every new AMD XP system. Since Windows XP is built based on Windows 2000.
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