Author: martin fierz
Date: 00:19:35 09/28/04
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On September 28, 2004 at 01:33:47, Ingo Bauer wrote: >Hi > >>Will there be enough of a speed increase to justify the money? > >The 2400+ has a real clock speed of 2000MHz. The XP3200+ has 2200MHz (plus >higher speed for the front side bus - which is mostly uninteresting for chess. >But to gain that small advantage you have to buy new memory too). They have two >different cores with 256kB cache and 512kB Cache which may(!) give another 3% >difference. AMD changed the rating parameters in between these two CPUs - if you >realy compare it to a P4 and chess they where right to do so, or the old XP2400+ >should have a new rating of 2700+. > >If you are lucky you have 15% difference in speed - to decide if that is enough >to justify the money is on you. > >Bye >Ingo 15% faster gives you something like 10 rating points. that should answer the question whether it's worth it... cheers martin
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