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Subject: Re: Rebel 10: How much pos/sec on AMD K6-300/350?

Author: Oliver Y.

Date: 18:34:49 12/14/98

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On December 14, 1998 at 19:26:18, James T. Walker wrote:

>On December 14, 1998 at 11:23:40, Francois Bertin wrote:
>
>>On December 14, 1998 at 10:23:20, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>On December 13, 1998 at 20:14:16, Francois Bertin wrote:
>>
>>>>Hi! I am currently looking around to replace my old and trusty P100.
>>>>I am interested by the AMD K6-300 or 350.
>>>>
>>>>Does anyone know how much positions per second Rebel 10 typically
>>>>does on that kind of processor. Also, does having a L2 cache of 1024K
>>>>instead of 512K has any significant impact on performance with Rebel?
>>>>
>>>>And what about the Celeron 300A, which also seems to be
>>>>a good alternative?
>>
>>>Hello Francois,
>>>I have an AMD K6-2 @350 Mhz with 512K cache.  Its hard to give you a NPS since
>>>it not only varies with the position but varies from 1 second to the next with
>>>the same position.  Here is a position I used to give you some figures.
>>>
>>>1b2r3/5k1p/BRb3pB/8/4P3/5P2/8/7K b - - 0 1
>>> BM Rxe4
>>>Rebel 10a on my K6-2 @ 350 Mhz I timed it for 5 minutes and calculated an
>>>average of 118 KNPS.  On my Pentium II @333 Mhz the same 5 minutes averaged
>>>100 KNPS.  Of course I've seen higher and lower  values throughout a whole game.
>>
>>  Thanks for the figures, Jim. Your K6-2 350 must really scream
>>when analyzing :-) On my P100, on average the pos/sec I get when
>>examining a position is around 30,000...
>>
>>  You state that your system has 512K of L2 cache. Do you think
>>Rebel would perform better with 1024K in the same task?
>>
>>                               Kind regards,
>>                                               Francois Bertin
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>Hello again Francois,
>I'm sorry but I can't answer that.  It's out of my expertise !  We had this
>discussion about a month ago with Bob Hyatt and a few others.  I think the
>botton line was it would not help a lot.  I tried to get one with 1 meg L2 cache
>but ended up taking the "Best price" I could find and skipped the extra cache.

If I recall correctly, few people could get their hands on the overclockable
Celeron chip.  Intel made this impossible once they learned of it, perhaps from
or via http://tomshardware.com




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