Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 03:24:34 11/23/98
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On November 23, 1998 at 03:06:33, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 23, 1998 at 00:29:10, Komputer Korner wrote: > >>On November 22, 1998 at 21:42:47, mason wiest wrote: >> >>>does anyone know which chip the new 32 bit fritz interface might favor >>>amd's k6-2,or intel's xeon inquiring minds wanta know ? >> >>Go with Intel. The AMD chip has had some unforseen problems according to Hyatt. > >Which problems??? There was a post from Bob Hyatt some days ago. He said the AMD k6 has an error. If I remember it right it was wrong branching prediction. I don't know if the error has been eliminated in the k6-2. Next year I want to buy a Windows-PC. Now I am not sure if it will be an AMD. Alessandro > >I am currently developping Tiger on a K6-2 300MHz machine. It was originally >written on a Pentium processor (not specially optimized for it BTW), and runs >fine on the K6-2. > >All I see is that K6-2 is very fast and cheap. > >The only drawback so far is that it does not support overclocking. > >But what else? > > > Christophe > > >>If the new 32 bit Fritz has as much assembler code as the 16 bit Fritz then that >>is another reason to go with Intel. >>-- >>Komputer Korner
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