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Subject: Re: Chip speeds

Author: Patrick Götz

Date: 13:13:20 10/09/03

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>I like the look of a machine with an AMD Athlon 2600+ chip with 512M DDR RAM,
>but for a few hundred pounds more I could get almost the same machine (except
>with superior graphics card, bigger monitor, networking capability - none of
>which I really need) with a Pentium 4 2.6GHz chip.


In Chess a AMD Athlon 2600+ is faster than a Pentium 4 2.6GHz.
And also much cheaper.
Buy the Athlon and use the saved money for more RAM for big Hashtables is a good
choice.

regards
Patrick



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