Author: stuart taylor
Date: 03:32:29 05/16/03
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On May 15, 2003 at 21:13:20, Aaron Gordon wrote: >On May 15, 2003 at 08:52:30, stuart taylor wrote: > >>On May 15, 2003 at 08:06:18, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110724,00.asp >> >>Can someone tell me what benefits I will gain if i upgrade to 3000 or 3200 from >>my Athlon 1400/266? >>Is it merely about (a little over than?) twice the speed, or is there more to it >>than that? >>S.Taylor > >If you're doing chess mainly a 2800+ would be your best bet, and would be faster >than both the 3000+ and 3200+. The 3000+ is 166fsb(333DDR) and 2.16GHz and has >512K L2 cache. The 3200+ is 2.2GHz, 200fsb(400DDR) and has 512K L2 cache. The >2800+ however is 2.25GHz, has 256K of L2 and runs 166fsb/333DDR. > >Since the L2 and fsb speeds won't matter for chess, the 2800+ would be your best >bet. If you don't mind pretested chips (which will save you a ton of cash, and >will be much faster than a 2800+, 3000+ or 3200+) go to www.newageoc.com That's interesting. I didn't realise that! L2 and fsb are irrelevant for chess, and even slows it down? S.Taylor
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