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Subject: Re: Cool AMD 450 Mhz....

Author: Mark Young

Date: 13:41:42 07/11/98

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On July 11, 1998 at 16:23:23, SEAN EVANS wrote:

>Those of you disbeliever's in regard to Schroeder's choice for a CPU in the
>Anand match.  May I remind you that he has been working in a computerized
>environment for approximately 25 years and if Rebel can pull off an upset, his
>sales will increase dramatically at least in the short term.  So why would he
>fudge CPU ratings.

Ed did not fudge CPU ratings. The people who sent in the times for each cpu may
not have followed the directions correctly and sent in the wrong times. It seems
that some sent in the times when rebel found the correct solution, and not the
times when the ply was finished which was what the directions called for.

  What ever CPU he chooses I will be at least be considering
>it for my next upgrade.
>
>BTW I heard a rumour that IBM has a CPU coming soon that is running at 1,000
>MHZ.  Imagine running a Quad 1,000 MHZ and having Quad 256 MEG RAM chips.
>
>I am fairly sure this future system due out relatively soon should turn Rebel
>into a Micro-Grandmaster.
>
><SNIP>
>> Quoting from Ed's benchmarkpage:
>
>> Pentium PRO 200      1:02    7:38    1:57     0:19    4:56   0:26
>> Cyrix 200            1:22   10:12    2:20     0:17    3:45   0:22
>> AMD K6 200           0:47    5:50    1:30     0:15    3:45   0:20
>
>> I would not trust the times given on Ed's web page.
><SNIP>
>
>Best Regards,
>
>Sean Evans



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