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Subject: Re: Chip speeds

Author: Michael P. Nance Sr.

Date: 15:41:38 10/09/03

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On October 09, 2003 at 15:28:28, Darren Rushton wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm thinking of upgrading my sad outdated 433Mhz Celeron, with 256MHz SD RAM for
>a somewhat faster beast.
>
>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.
>
>Can anyone advise the difference in speed of the PIV over the Athlon, and will I
>really notice it when using Chessbase and Winboard engines on the machine.
>
>Thanks and Regards,
>
>Daz

I have both types of Processors. I've always got My best results from Amd
Processors for Chess. Look into Amd's Opteron,You will be amazed.>>>>Mike



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