Author: Brian Katz
Date: 09:35:29 12/30/01
I have recently asked many questions regarding Pent 4 2.0 Gig vs the Athlon 1900+, and have received many replies. Thank you. It is greatly appreciated! The general consensus is that the Athlon 1900+ outperforms the Pentium 4 2.0 Gig by far when run with most chess programs. I was just speaking to a technician at a local PC store about this issue. His view is that all the tests between the Athlons and the Pentium, where the Athlons were scoring better, were with the Peniums using only SDRAM instead of models using the faster RDRAM. He insisted that the bottleneck caused by using the SDRAM was one of the reasons. He also stated that with RDRAM where you can have BUS Speeds of 400-600 ( Athlon only 266) should allow the Pentium 4 to blow the Athlon away. He did go on to say that the Pentium will have a 3.5 GIG processor in about a years time. (Yes he said 3.5 GIG) He also went on to say that the Athlon Motherboards were a bit unsteady and caused some problems. I just happened to ask about getting the new Athlon 2000+ when it is available, and would it be possible to upgrade to a DUAL 2000+ Processor? That is when he said the Athlon Motherboards are unsteady when purchasing the moterboards. However, the Manufacturer made computers with Athlons seemed to be fine. I am ready to go out and Purchase an Athlon 2000+ as soon as they become available, perphaps they already are. If anyone can shed some light on any of the issues, it would greatly appreciated. Thank you and Happy New Year to everyone!!
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