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Subject: Re: CM6000 on a PII 350

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 03:53:03 12/13/98

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On December 12, 1998 at 19:44:16, Mark Young wrote:

>On December 12, 1998 at 19:29:56, Robert Wilkins wrote:
>
>> How much stronger would CM6000 play on a PII 350 compared to my P233 MMX. ALso
>>is there a way I can increase its potential with any outside add-ons that might
>>be available (opening books - endgame table bases - etc)
>
>Any P II chip will run CM6000 faster. CM6000 is a 32bit program, the P233 MMX
>will not take advantage of the 32bit program. So the P II will be much faster
>Mhz vs Mhz. The AMD K6-2 will also be about the same as a P II Mhz vs Mhz
>running CM6000 from what I hear. To answer you question the P II 350 should be
>around 2x faster then a P233 MMX running CM6000, so it may be 70 elo points or
>so stronger.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Hello Mark,
Can I get a second opinion on this ?  I thought even a 486 was a 32 bit machine.
I know the PII has MMX technology but I so does his P233/MMX.  So the major
difference as I understand is only the L1 cache is doubled on the PII which will
make chess programs run a little faster.
Jim Walker



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