Author: stuart taylor
Date: 00:31:47 12/14/03
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On December 13, 2003 at 23:56:06, enrico carrisco wrote: >On December 13, 2003 at 22:09:22, stuart taylor wrote: > >>Including speed, for all applications? Or for all chess programs? >>If not, why did they now make 2.2 (or 2.0?). >>S.Taylor > >What "3.2GHz" cpu do you speak of? A P4? If so, yes, you would see a nice >speed up even on 32-bit apps, chess or non-chess. I'm speaking of the same company, AMD. If the difference varies from program to program, which Ghz. of 64 bit-AMD would you say, is safely a speed-up (over amd/32/3.2Ghz) on ANY application (32 or 64)? S.Taylor > >It's still a bit of an expensive upgrade at the moment, however. If you are >truly interested in the FX chip, wait a bit for production to shift from 940pin >(which is the Opteron's territory) to 939 pin. > >Once this happens the motherboards will be cheaper, include more features, and >not require the more expensive registered ECC ram. > >-elc.
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