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Subject: doubt it

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:43:48 01/21/02

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I can't imagine it has to do with the BIOS setup.

The BIOS would only be able to affect external memory speed and possibly disable
the on-chip caches. I doubt that any changes to external memory settings would
have a major effect on chess programs and if any of the on-chip caches were
disabled, performance would be closer to 386 speeds than underclocked Athlon
speeds.

The two reasons I can imagine for the Athlon not performing as well as it should
are 1) accidental underclocking and 2) accidentally running something else in
the background.

-Tom



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