Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 15:47:11 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I'm thinking of upgrading my sad outdated 433Mhz Celeron, with 256MHz SD RAM for 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 The Pentium 4 is about 70% as fast as an Athlon for chess. Pentium 4 2,6 Ghz is as fast as an Athlon at 1,82 GHz, which is an Athlon 2200+. So the Athlon 2600+ will be faster for chess than the Pentium 4 2,6 Ghz. I'd buy an old AMD Athlon XP 2800+, 2250MHz, 166MHz FSB, 256kB Cache with the Thoroughbred - Core. Note: this is not the new Athlon XP with the Barton-Core, which runs only at 2083 Ghz. regards Joachim
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