Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 13:26:30 05/06/02
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On May 06, 2002 at 13:09:18, Jorge Pichard wrote: >On May 06, 2002 at 12:59:10, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On May 06, 2002 at 12:53:12, Keith Ian Price wrote: >> >>>On May 06, 2002 at 11:05:38, Rajen Gupta wrote: >>> >>>>On May 06, 2002 at 10:45:21, Dan Andersson wrote: >>>> >>>>>Good for them. But with the current speed of Athlon XP we will have to see a >>>>>2.9GHz P4 before even considering a switch for chess programs and FEA. >>>>> >>>>>MvH Dan Andersson >>>> >>>>i doubt it. someone here had posted the tiger and fritz mark on a pentium 4 >>>>northwood, about 10 days back(i forget the name of the poster, perhaps if he >>>>reads this he can respond)and it was identical to the benchmarks which others >>>>had posted of an athlon xp at 1600MHZ. This means that a pentium4 2.4 would >>>>atleast run as fast as athlon xp 1.73(the fastest currently available) and a >>>>pentium 2.53 would woud run somewhere between an athlonxp 1.83-1.87 9probably >>>>the latter in view of a faster FSB, faster memory and the superior scaling of a >>>>P4 at higher speeds as compared to an athlon xp. >>>> >>>>I greatly fear that amd have taken their eye of the ball and will forever be >>>>playing catchup, one lap behind >>>> >>>>rajen >>> >>>That was me. My 2.2 Ghz P4 is also used for rendering video, a task at which it >>>blows the doors off any AMD processor so far, which is why I got it, rather than >>>an AMD. The 2 ELO increase I could expect from the AMD 2100+ system over mine >>>wasn't enough of an incentive to render video at 75% of the speed. That and the >>>fact that a similarly equipped AMD system from HP or Compaq would have cost 50% >>>more. 60% if I tried to put one together myself at the time. Gateway is giving >>>away their high-end models to try and raise market share, so I was happy to >>>help. >> >> >> >>Interesting! Is there one Gateway model you think is particularly well-priced >>right now? > >http://www.gateway.com/home/deals/offers/700xl.shtml Yes, that is the one. The 18.1 inch flat screen is really nice and bright, and so much better for my old eyes than a CRT. The GeForce4 Ti-4600 video card is the fastest you can get, as well. DVD burner and 1 Gig of RAMBus memory (PC800) as well. kp
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