Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:47:05 02/10/03
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On February 10, 2003 at 01:57:41, Matt Taylor wrote: >On February 09, 2003 at 22:29:07, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On February 09, 2003 at 21:52:12, ERIQ wrote: >> >>>a) what would be the strength of each relative to fide >>>b) what is the diff between them >>> >>>I am at a cross roads need to by another comp would love to go dual but big diff >>>in price, just want to know if its worth it. I already know I would enjoy the >>>speed of duals for compiling stuff in freebsd :) >> >> >>The 2500 is going to be better by some small margin. It will probably be >>cheaper, too... >> >>No idea about the "FIDE rating" since computers can't be members of FIDE and >>play in "their" rating pool... > >Dual CPU board = $200 >(2) AthlonMP 2000 CPUs - $300 > >Single CPU board - $100-$140 >1 AthlonXP 2500 - $200 > >Yes, about $150-$200 cheaper if you put it together yourself. A dual AthlonMP >2000 (2x1.67 GHz/256 KB L2) would be faster than a single AthlonXP 2500 (1x1.83 >GHz/512 KB L2) minus difference in bus speed. > >I am curious. Do you think a 166 MHz FSB would be enough to give the AthlonXP >2500 the advantage here? Assuming same clock timings on the ram, of course. This >makes the ram on the AthlonXP 2500 run 25% faster. > >-Matt I really don't know. I have a _hard_ time figuring anything out from the raw FSB clock rate. That doesn't count raw ram latency, plus any other overhead caused by the particular chipset or memory design. I've "given up" and simply benchmark any machine that seems interesting. :)
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