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Subject: Re: need advice in buying a new computer for WCCC

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:35:23 05/18/04

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On May 18, 2004 at 09:30:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On May 17, 2004 at 17:34:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I hate to try to talk about something I have not confirmed with personal
>>investigation and testing.  But early talk was the opteron was faster, because
>>it had a memory bus 2x as wide as the athlon 64.  Whether that is true or not I
>>have no idea.  If true it would certainly make a difference...
>
>Should be quite negligible for chess.
>
>--
>GCP


Maybe not.  Will require 2x the bus cycles to fill a 64 byte cache line.  That's
not negligible...




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