Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 06:25:42 01/12/04
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On January 12, 2004 at 09:21:06, martin fierz wrote: >i'm on the lookout for an AMD64 dropin for one of my older computers, mainboard, >RAM and CPU. it's not too expensive it seems (about 900 swiss francs which is >around 700$). > >currently i have the following choice: > >- 3000+: 2GHz, 512KB cache >- 3200+: 2GHz, 1MB cache >- 3400+: 2.2GHz, 1MB cache > >of course they get more expensive as the xxxx+ number goes up. does anybody have >an idea what is more important for a typical chess program: having an additional >512K L2 cache, or having those extra 0.2GHz? my instinct is to go for the >cheapest version, but since the 3200+ is only about 80$ more than the 3000+, i'd >like to know whether it might be worth the extra money (the 80$ more are about >12% more in total price, so if the system delivers 12% more performance it would >be even...) > >cheers > martin the AMD 3000+(2 ghz) will be very near to the 3200+ cpu speed is more important than the extra cache (i doubt that you will get more than a 2-3% difference between the 2
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