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Subject: Re: Has others seen this type of speed/rating increase?

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 17:25:14 01/29/99

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On January 29, 1999 at 19:29:09, Bertil Eklund wrote:

>First of all very much thank you for your interesting tournaments!

Thank you for your list 10x. :)

>As you know SSDF are going to upgrade in the near future and we have to take a
>decision in march or so. Do you have any figures on the speed increase for
>programs on the P2-400 vs P200MMX.

The PII-400 is just twice as fast as the P200MMX except for Fritz 5, that runs
only 1.6 or 1.7 times faster on the PII-400.

>Do you or others have any proposal for what
>to choose (best for money). We can“t afford xeons or Kryotech-AMDs or a fragile
>overclocked celeron. The P3-500 looks good but is rather expensive. What about
>the new AMD. I hope someone can publish some tests with the new AMD if it is
>better than Intel I think we could choose AMD. I hope we can have some facts in
>this case before a decision in early march.

I would go for the fastest possible P3. It's more expensive, but it will be
useful for one year more than the others. Any rationalization to get the fastest
processor is welcome. :)

And of course 256MB RAM, or else the fast searchers won't be all that happy.

Enrique

>Bertil



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