Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 03:59:42 05/16/03
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On May 16, 2003 at 06:32:29, stuart taylor wrote: >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 Doesn't slow it down, but it definitely doesn't help from the tests I've done. It helps on extremely old computers, like classic pentiums and other socket-7 chips (also helps a lot for 486s).. but for todays chips I see no difference at all. Tested a Duron vs Tbird, no gain in kn/s. T-bred vs Barton, no gain. P4 w/ 256k L2 vs P4 w/ 512K L2.. again no gain. This is ok for chess though.. means you can grab a 2800+/2.25ghz for cheap & have the fastest chess CPU (or a 2.4GHz XP from www.newageoc.com :).
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