Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 22:17:52 12/20/02
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On December 20, 2002 at 15:59:23, Bob Durrett wrote: > >I guess everybody is agreed that Athlon is the "choice of chess champions," so >to speak. I guess I'll have to buy one next month, or maybe February. > >Is the AthlonXP 2.52 GHz the latest? I suppose not. What is, or will be by >February 2003? Who sells it? Compaq? Dell? IBM? Hormel? > >Better yet, if someone would care to provide all the procurement specs, I'll buy >one for everybody. [Just kidding.] > >Bob D. In March, the latest will be the AMD Clawhammer/Opteron (I hope!) which will be sold under the name "Athlon64." This is the K8, the next generation. Another point which seems agreed on by most people here is that chess programs are hurt by latency (because of hashing). The K8 sports a lower memory latency. For this reason, AMD estimates it will be 25% faster than current Athlons in 32-bit code clock-for-clock. Since the K8 should be releasing at a clockrate on-par with the current Athlons... :-) -Matt
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