Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 21:41:45 04/26/02
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On April 26, 2002 at 23:41:40, Chris Kantack wrote: >On April 26, 2002 at 21:27:00, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: >>On April 26, 2002 at 19:02:58, ERNIE COLLADO wrote: >> >>> >>>Hi Everyone, >>> >>>I have a question: is it true that the latest AMD Athlon chip is that much >>>faster than the latest Pentium 4 for chess programs?? Could you give me some >>>practical examples. Like how much stronger would Fritz 7 play or how much faster >>>can you retrieve information from a chess database? Any other non-technical >>>information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help. > >I agree with Timothy. Plus consider this: A Pentium 4 is much safer than an >Athlon! If your CPU fan fails on a P4, the P4 will automatically slow down to a >safe operating temperature. An Athlon CPU on the other hand will just fry its >brains out. Possibly starting the motherboard on fire. > >Check out: http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010917/index.html > >for more info. > >Chris Kantack >http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/home.htm If you have someone that knows what they are doing install a quality heatsink/fan you won't have problems with the heatsink falling off. If you get a nice fan you'll never have to worry about it failing before it's time to get another. Most Athlon boards have thermal monitoring and you can set it to shutdown the system when the CPU temp gets too hot. Even if you stuff a pencil into the fan and allow the CPU to gradually heat up the board will turn everything off after it gets past whatever temperature threshhold you specify. If you can afford a P4 you can definitely afford a top of the line Athlon board that does this.
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