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Subject: Re: AMD vs Pentium

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 09:42:15 03/16/03

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On March 16, 2003 at 12:26:44, Jason Kasick wrote:

>I'm about to buy a new computer.  Its between an AMD 2600+ 512ram, or a Pentium
>2.53 GHz, 512 RAm.  Which is better for chess?  I also do some flight sim games
>too, but mainly i want a good processor for chess engines.

With the benchmarks I've done I have found that a Pentium 4 2.53GHz about the
same speed as an AthlonXP 2000+ (1.66GHz). A 2.13GHz AthlonXP (2600+) would be
right around the speed of a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 in chess.



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