Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 12:10:00 12/31/01
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On December 30, 2001 at 12:35:29, Brian Katz wrote: > 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. yore man is completely wrong. see the following http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1554 http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1543 http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/ http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/cpu/article.php/929451 in particular for chess the business benchmarks are relevant which show that a pentium 2.0 with RDRAM and all the other dooda lies exactly at the same level as a athlon 1.33 further all salesmen at computer superstores will tell you exactly what yore man said because thats what they are ordered to say by their bosses. > 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) maybe but then wait for a yr and see what amd has! >He also went on to say that the Athlon Motherboards were a bit unsteady and >caused some problems. not for a while. the recent ones are rock steady > 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. www.gamepc.com is doing a athlon 2000 today. see www.pcnut.com as well. they will do you a custom mad dual rig that will blow intel off the water as surely as the taliban have been blown away :) > >Thank you and Happy New Year to everyone!! same to u
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