Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 07:18:30 12/21/02
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On December 21, 2002 at 01:17:52, Matt Taylor wrote: >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 Now THAT was a good answer! Gets right to the point! Super. I will wait for the Athlon64 and then become a "happy camper" when it arrives. Presumably, there is only one kind of RAM available for the Athlon64? If not, which best for chess? Any other suggestions? Thanks a bunch. Bob D.
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